They were direct, honest, unadorned, and unyielding. We will keep her family in our thoughts and prayers during this difficult time. Donald Trump to choose her replacement.“My most fervent wish is that I will not be replaced until a new president is installed,” Ginsburg told granddaughter Clara Spera, according to NPR.The vacancy left by Ginsburg, 87, could forever alter the Supreme Court in the long-run and also presents an immediate conflict in Washington, D.C.In 2016, Republicans in Senate refused to consider then President Barack Obama’s nominee, Merrick Garland, reportedly because 2016 was an Election year.At that time, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said.Now, Democrats say, Republicans must apply the precedent ahead of the 2020 Presidential Election.“Four and a half years ago, when Republicans refused to hold a hearing or an up-or-down vote on Merrick Garland, they invented the principle that the Senate shouldn’t fill an open seat on the Supreme Court before a new president was sworn in. (AP Photo/Steve Helber).Copyright 2020 Scripps Media, Inc. All rights reserved. "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 it might be, make that nomination," he said.Reporting emerged in the Washington Post newspaper on Friday that McConnell was encouraging Republicans to wait before speaking out on a confirmation.Veteran Republican strategist Stuart Stevens, who does not support Donald Trump, said that McConnell was trying to "delay" Republican senators "who said they would not support a replacement pre-election from confirming their statements.". The death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has already set off a heated debate in the United States just six weeks before an already contentious presidential election.The feminist icon of the US' highest court had become legendary among left-leaning voters and she reportedly wanted her replacement to be named by a new president, according to NPR.Candidates to the Supreme Court are nominated by the president but face a Senate hearing and vote to be confirmed.Now, with many Americans already voting amid the coronavirus pandemic, Republicans have said the Senate should vote to confirm a Trump nominee to the Supreme Court.Donald Trump tweeted that the Republicans were "put in this position of power and importance to make decisions for the people who so proudly elected us, the most important of which has long been considered to be the selection of United States Supreme Court Justices.". 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