“To those who engaged in the gleeful desecration of this, our temple of Democracy, American Democracy, justice will be done,” Pelosi
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“We were all witnesses to the events that day when a group of insurrectionists, White supremacists, and domestic terrorists fed a cavalcade of lies about the legitimacy of the American elections by the former President, told to come to Washington by the former President, whipped into a frenzy and directed toward the Capitol by the former President, invaded and desecrated this sacred temple of democracy with the intention of denying the counting of the electoral college vote–the final act in certifying the former President’s defeat. The horrors of that day may have faded for some, not for others. Many
in this Chamber, staff, Senators, House Members, and House staff alike, still live through this every single day–every single day. So it has not faded for a lot of us. But as country, even for those for whom it has faded, we cannot simply move on.” – Nancy Pelosi, Amendment Text: S.Amdt.834 — 117th Congress
The origin of Lady Justice was Justitia (or Iustitia), the goddess of Justice within Roman mythology. Justitia was introduced by emperor Augustus, and was thus not a very old deity in the Roman pantheon.
Justice was one of the virtues celebrated by emperor Augustus in his clipeus virtutis, and a temple of Iustitia was established in Rome by emperor Tiberius. Iustitia became a symbol for the virtue of justice with which every emperor wished to associate his regime; emperor Vespasian minted coins with the image of the goddess seated on a throne called Iustitia Augusta, and many emperors after him used the image of the goddess to proclaim themselves protectors of justice.
Though formally called a goddess with her own temple and cult shrine in Rome, it appears that she was from the onset viewed more as an artistic symbolic personification rather than as an actual deity with religious significance.