Ruth Bader Ginsburg could have casually retired at 80 yrs old under Obama and been replaced by an ultra progressive in their 40s... but she chose not to. That was, without doubt, the most pro-America decision she has made.
It’s not Trump’s fault that he gets the opportunity to push through a new justice.
On November 21, 2013, democrap Senate majority leader Harry Reid, overrode the filibuster of a nomination with a simple majority vote to change the rules for all but Scotus nominees, which was the most pro-America thing he ever did. In April 2017 Mitch McConnell extended the rule for Supreme Court nominees to be approved by a simple majority vote.
It’s not Trump’s fault that the democraps changed the rules and the Republicans went along with it. One wonders if Cocaine Mitch would have had to cojones to do so had Harry Reid not laid the groundwork.
The reason she did not retire before the end of Obama's presidency was because her seat was being saved for Loretta Lynch.
LL was to be rewarded for stopping the investigation into Hillary in 2016. (tarmac meeting)
Scalia's seat was to be given to Garland, they wanted to wait for a year or so and then have RGB retire, delaying the LL appointment so it was not so obvious what they were doing.
It’s almost forgotten now, but there never WAS a filibuster of judicial nominees until the dems started doing it when during W?