For four years, people prayed for her health. They panicked when she trended on Twitter and pointed to her much-memed exercise routine, including 10 pushups per day well into her 80s, as proof of her superhumanity. On Friday, the fate we dreaded and feared came to pass: Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died.
There was something uneasy about those prayers all along, even as I, too, wished that "RBG" could live forever: the sense that people were pulling not only for the woman herself, but the fact that her loss would be President Trump's political gain, offering him an unprecedented third Supreme Court pick in his first (and hopefully lone) term. By contrast, during eight years in the White House, President Obama appointed two justices, plus his disgracefully stolen final nomination of Merrick Garland. Ginsburg was an American heroine who laid the legal groundwork for equal rights, but at times it felt like people wanted her to stay alive for the sole purpose of "saving" the Supreme Court, and the country, from Trump's lasting influence—an impossible task, even for her.
Justice Ginsburg's life became inextricably linked with her Supreme Court seat, and, now, so has her death. No sooner had we lost Ginsburg than the wheel-spinning began: Would Mitch McConnell fast-track and force through another Trump appointee in the final weeks before the election, despite his own bogus, 2016 rule about lame-duck nominations? Of course he would. He didn't even bother to separate his official statement on Ginsburg's passing with his announcement, a few asterisks and one paragraph later, that he intended to grant Trump's pick a vote on the floor of the Senate. In only its third paragraph, Ginsburg's obituary on the cover of Saturday's New York Times quickly pivots from her role as champion for justice to Senate Republicans' master plan. "The confirmation battle," it notes, "is sure to be titanic."
Most wrenching, however, is that at the end of Ginsburg's extraordinary life, while fighting pancreatic cancer, she was forced to consider the fallout of her death, dictating in a statement to her granddaughter that her "most fervent wish is that I will not be replaced until a new president is installed." As Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tweeted on Friday night: "It is heartbreaking that in her final moments she was, as are many others, preoccupied with what would happen after her passing."
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