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When that suggestion is made, I ask the question: Who do you think the president could nominate that could get through the Republican Senate? Who you would prefer on the court than me?
— Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, responding to critiques about why she didn’t announce her retirement from the Supreme Court when Barack Obama was serving as president. The 86-year-old justice, who is currently in recovery after her fourth battle with cancer, watched as the Republican-controlled Senate refused to address Obama’s nomination of Judge Merrick Garland to the high court following the death of her close friend, Antonin Scalia, in 2016.
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