Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the second woman to serve on the Supreme Court, died at the age of 87.1 “My most fervent wish is that I will not be replaced until a new president is installed,” she dictated in a statement during her final days. Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell released a statement hours after Ginsburg’s death announcing that Republicans would vote on President Trump’s nominee for her replacement, and Senator Lindsey Graham, who said after the 2016 nomination of Merrick Garland, “I want you to use my words against me. If there’s a Republican president in 2016 and a vacancy occurs in the last year of the first term, you can say, ‘Lindsey Graham said let’s let the next president, whoever that may be, make the nomination,’[thinsp]” voiced his support for the effort to fill the vacancy.
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Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the second woman to serve on the Supreme Court, died at the age of 87.1 “My most fervent wish is that I will not be replaced until a new president is installed,” she dictated in a statement during her final days. Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell released a statement hours after Ginsburg’s death announcing that Republicans would vote on President Trump’s nominee for her replacement, and Senator Lindsey Graham, who said after the 2016 nomination of Merrick Garland, “I want you to use my words against me. If there’s a Republican president in 2016 and a vacancy occurs in the last year of the first term, you can say, ‘Lindsey Graham said let’s let the next president, whoever that may be, make the nomination,’[thinsp]” voiced his support for the effort to fill the vacancy.