"I do think cooler heads will prevail, I hope sooner rather than later,” Ginsburg said. “The president is elected for four years not three years, so the power he has in year three continues into year four.”Maybe members of the Senate will wake up and appreciate that that’s how it should be.” - Ginsburg on Sept. 7, 2016
Ginsburg is quite clear on the constitutionality of this issue. In fact, she was in favor of it for Garland.
But now she is supposedly against it with her own replacement?!
Is she just a political partisan rather than a judge on the SCOTUS? Her unsolicited political comments about Trump a few years ago, along with her activist voting record suggest that this could be the case.
But, on the other hand, it seems more likely that the Dems made up a "last wish" story as a way to try to derail a nomination just long enough to try to win the next election and change it. We know from the Kavanaugh fiasco that these Democrats will literally say or do anything to avoid another SCOTUS appointment by Trump. It would be sad that such wordly concerns would be the last dying thoughts of a person.
Anyways, here's your own heavily biased WaPo article, conor - back when they were trying to get this to happen, not now when they are trying to prevent it.
Link: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/ginsburg-suggests-senate-should-act-on-garland-nomination-but-says-it-cannot-be-forced-to/2016/09/07/0f10b7b6-754c-11e6-b786-19d0cb1ed06c_story.html