Supreme Court Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg leaving the early voting site at Judiciary Square on Tuesday evening after casting her ballot. (Photo by Michael Clark)

Michael Clark had just stepped into the early voting site in Judiciary Square on Tuesday evening to charge his phone when he saw her.

“I looked up and saw Ruth Bader Ginsburg,” said Clark, a campaign worker for mayoral write-in James Butler. “She was very nice. She waved.”

Of all the government’s most senior officials, Supreme Court justices seem the most detached from the daily hubbub going on around them. But when it comes to judiciously exercising their franchise, they’re just like everyone else. That means they show up, wait in line, and cast a ballot.

“There’s no special treatment,” said Rachel Coll, a spokeswoman for the D.C. Board of Elections, when asked whether justices can call ahead and jump the line.

That’s not to say it may not happen — back in 2012, Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor was seen being escorted into her polling place just off of U Street NW, where she bought a condo shortly after being confirmed in August 2009. But Coll said there’s no established protocol in place for dealing with VIPs who want to vote.

Ginsburg — who called voting the “most fundamental right in our democratic system” in a searing dissent to a 2013 decision on the Voting Rights Act — was accompanied by a two-person security detail and an assistant. And she wasn’t the only justice to vote early in D.C. Yesterday morning, it was Associate Justice Elena Kagan’s turn.

On Wednesday, it was Associate Justice Elena Kagan’s turn to cast a ballot. (Photo by Michael Clark)

“It was very exciting. She wouldn’t stop to get literature, unfortunately,” said Sharon Gang, a volunteer for Independent At-large Councilmember Elissa Silverman’s re-election campaign.

Clark was also there to see Kagan and says that she tried to avoid attracting attention to herself as she entered the polling place.

“She tried to slip in,” he said. “She waved at people on the way out.”

Along with Ginsburg, Kagan, and Sotomayor, Associate Justice Stephen Breyer also lives in D.C. Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch are Virginia residents, while newest Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh and Chief Justice John Roberts live in Maryland, where the week-long early voting period starts today. (In 2015, Roberts showed up for jury duty in Rockville; he wasn’t selected.)

If any remaining justices are waiting to vote, we recommend that they read DCist’s voting guide for the D.C. races, WAMU’s voting guide for Maryland’s statewide contests, and our recent profiles of Virginia Rep. Barbara Comstock and Sen. Tim Kaine.

But one of D.C.’s most famous couples won’t be following the lead of the justices—neither Barack nor Michelle Obama are registered to vote in D.C., even though they do keep a home here.

“I was sort of inspired by it because she is voting early,” said Gang of seeing Kagan cast her ballot. “She’s making the effort to vote early. And in a local election. I thought that was really important.”

Clark agrees. “It was pretty exciting to see them taking part in the democratic process here in D.C.,” he said.

This story originally appeared on WAMU.