Dear Media: Don’t Both-Sides the Power Grab for RBG’s Seat
There are no two sides here. This is unprecedented and corrupt.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died, and, because it is 2020, we do not have the luxury of just mourning. Because it is 2020, even she did not have the luxury of passing in peace; instead, her final statement was an exhortation for procedural fairness in the Senate. “My most fervent wish is that I will not be replaced until a new president is installed,” she reportedly said on her deathbed, dictating to her granddaughter. It’s a very specific fervent wish, because, of course, it being 2020, she knew her dying wish likely would be ignored. And so it was, mere hours into Rosh Hashanah, in the form of a statement from Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.
Of course it was ignored! It’s 2020, trash fire of years and one in which the last thing anyone could dream of expecting from McConnell and President Donald Trump would be respect for institutions, norms, and the will of the American people. This is why RBG made this wish public.
While the honey still flowed at Rosh Hashanah tables — Have a sweet new year, try not to gag! Yeah, why don’t you wash that down with wine !— social media exploded with conjecture about what McConnell could and couldn’t do and what the same few not-totally-obeisant…
