The Latest: Mourners pay respects to late Justice Scalia

Two federal judges who have been discussed as possible replacements for Justice Antonin Scalia are among those paying their respects to the late jurist on Friday.

Judges Sri Srinivasan and Patricia Millett of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit paused briefly before Scalia's casket in the Supreme Court's Great Hall.

Obama has pledged to pick a replacement "in due time" and challenged Republicans to vote on his nominee.

Outside the Supreme Court, fans of the late Justice Antonin Scalia have created a makeshift memorial at the bottom of the court steps.

Items include two jars of applesauce, a package of paper bags and a pile of fortune cookies — a nod to his biting dissents last year in the court's gay marriage case and its ruling rejecting a challenge to President Barack Obama's health care law.

The justices' appearance Friday in the Great Hall, when the casket bearing the remains of their late colleague, Antonin Scalia, was brought in, is no exception.

The line of people waiting to pay their respects to Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia stretched for nearly a block a few minutes before the public was allowed into the Supreme Court, where he lies in repose.

Rhaleta and Kelvin Bernard of Queens, New York — where Scalia grew up — had been visiting Washington and changed their bus ticket back so that they could pay their respects.

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia's son Paul — a Catholic priest — recited traditional prayers over his father's casket after it was placed in the Supreme Court's Great Hall.

Thousands of mourners — from the president and members of Congress to former justices and tourists — are expected to pay their respects to Scalia as the casket rests in the court's Great Hall.