the origin of the quote - her long-time friend, Nina Totenberg of NPR:
18 Sept: NPR: Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Champion Of Gender Equality, Dies At 87
by Nina Totenberg, Weekend Edition Saturday
Just days before her death, as her strength waned, Ginsburg dictated this statement to her granddaughter Clara Spera: “My most fervent wish is that I will not be replaced until a new president is installed.”
She knew what was to come...
https://www.npr.org/2020/09/18/100306972/justice-ruth-bader-ginsburg-champion-of-gender-equality-dies-at-87
Snopes says it’s true! lol. links to the wrong NPR url, not the one above; proves its point with an actor/comedian’s tweet!
21 Sept: Snopes: Did Ginsburg Say Her ‘Most Fervent Wish’ Was Not To Be Replaced by Trump?
The U.S. Supreme Court justice dictated a message to her granddaughter shortly before she died.
by DAN EVON
As transcribed by her granddaughter, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said: “My most fervent wish is that I will not be replaced until a new president is installed.”
RATING: Correct attribution
As McConnell reversed course in 2020, saying that Trump should be the one to nominate a replacement for Ginsburg (despite the fact that this seat on the Supreme Court Bench opened up just 46 days before an election), a quote supposedly uttered by Ginsburg during her final days expressing that her most “fervent wish” was not to be replaced by Trump started to circulate on social media:
TWEET: Kumail Nanjiani (ACTOR/COMEDIAN) - 19 Sept 2020
No matter where we go from here, this is a remarkably selfless statement to make on your deathbed:
“My most fervent wish is that I will not be replaced until a new President is installed.”
RIP Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Twitter link
This is a genuine quote from Ginsburg. This quote was first reported by NPR in an article about the Supreme Court judge’s death. Ginsburg dictated this statement to her granddaughter, Clara Spera, in the days before her death...
NPR reported:
‘Just days before her death, as her strength waned, Ginsburg dictated this statement to her granddaughter Clara Spera: “My most fervent wish is that I will not be replaced until a new president is installed.”’...
The above-displayed quote originated with Ginsburg’s family. Spera described her close relationship with her grandmother, whom she called “Bubbie,” in a 2018 profile published by Glamour...
Despite the origins of this quote, Trump cast aspersions on this remark, baselessly claiming that it could have been written by a Democrat...
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/ginsburg-wish-replaced-trump/
22 Sept: Daily Mail: REVEALED: Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s ‘most fervent’ deathbed wish to be replaced by ‘the next president’ was told to her granddaughter and made public in her obituary written by friend, an NPR reporter
•Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s final wish was revealed in reporting by National Public Radio’s Nina Totenberg
•Totenberg included those details in the obituary she wrote for Ginsburg Friday night
•The NPR reporter said that Ginsburg dictated the statement to her granddaughter Clara Spera
•’My most fervent wish is that I will not be replaced until a new president is installed,’ Ginsburg said
•On Monday during an appearance on ‘Fox & Friends,’ President Donald Trump floated that the statement was a creation of top Congressional Democrats
•’But that sounds like a Schumer deal or maybe a Pelosi or shifty Schiff,’ Trump suggested
By Nikki Schwab
Totenberg included the anecdote in the obituary she published LINK after Ginsburg’s death became public Friday night...
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8757083/How-Ruth-Bader-Ginsburgs-dying-wish-public.html
2m35s Cuomo re quote: “according to family”; doesn’t note Totenberg was the source, no evidence provided from granddaughter.
Tweet: Cuomo Prime Time
“I was astonished that she was so prescient that she had to say out loud what I think most of us...are thinking.” DC Del. @EleanorNorton, long-time friend of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, reacts to reports that Ginsburg didn’t want to be replaced “until a new president is installed.”
VIDEO 4m52s
20 Sept 2020
https://twitter.com/CuomoPrimeTime/status/1307464231734915074
VIDEO: 21 Sept: The Wrap: Tucker Carlson Trashes RBG Over Final Wish for SCOTUS Replacement: ‘Pathetic’ (Video)
“Did she really leave this world fretting about a presidential election?” Tucker said, mocking the late Supreme Court justice
by Phil Owen
Tucker Carlson once again complained about the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s final wish on Monday, saying it’s “insulting” to having an issue with letting a historically unpopular president choose RBG’s replacement right before a new presidential election.
Tucker started out his Monday Fox News show complaining about any Democrat who had talked about RBG’s wish. Per Clara Spera, her granddaughter — as reported by NPR — Ginsburg said days before she died: “My most fervent wish is that I will not be replaced until a new president is installed.”
“Consider for a moment the reasoning here, the argument that they’re making. Nothing is more important than our Constitution — that Constitution is in grave jeopardy. That’s why we must substitute an 87-year-old woman’s final wish for the constitutionally prescribed process for filling a supreme court seat,” Carlson ranted dryly...
“That’s what they’re arguing. Got that? Pretty amusing. Keep in mind we don’t really know actually what Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s final words were. Did she really leave this world fretting about a presidential election? We don’t believe that for a second. If it were true, it would be pathetic.”...
“Life is bigger than politics, even this year. We wouldn’t wish final words that small on anyone, so we’re gonna, again, choose to believe that Ruth Bader Ginsburg didn’t really say that,” Tucker went on. “That in real life, she was thinking at the end about her family and where she might be going next. Human concerns not partisan ones.”...
“In practical terms it’s irrelevant what she said. Ruth Bader Ginsburg doesn’t get to pick her replacement from her deathbed. That’s not how it works. We have a Constitution we’re supposed to be defending, remember, and that’s the whole point of the Constitution. If Justice Scalia had said something like that, nobody would have cared. We would have been embarrassed for him. Thankfully, he didn’t say that,” Tucker said.
“On some level Democrats know all this. All this talk about Ginsburg’s dying wish is ridiculous and insulting to all of us and our country. And they’ll stop soon. Democrats have an alternative argument at the ready and it’s one they’ve been honing all year. It goes like this: do what we want or we will hurt you. That’s the real argument they’re making.”
TUCKER VIDEO 1m25s
https://www.thewrap.com/tucker-carlson-trashes-rbg-over-final-wish-for-scotus-replacement-pathetic-video/