The chief of staff to Vice President Pence on Sunday defended the administration’s decision to ignore the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s deathbed request not to fill her seat until after the election, telling CNN that it was not Ginsburg’s choice to make.
Shortly before dying Friday, Ginsburg dictated a statement to her granddaughter: “My most fervent wish is that I will not be replaced until a new president is installed.”
“Today we as a nation mourn the loss of Justice Ginsburg,” Marc Short said on CNN’s State of the Union. “She’s certainly a giant upon whose shoulders many will stand, and she blazed a trail for many women in the legal profession. But the decision of when to nominate does not lie with her.”
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