FLASHBACK: RBG in 2016 said Senate should hold confirmation hearing during election year

The media and Democrats are going absolutely nuts at the idea of Trump filling RBG’s seat in the Supreme Court.

Many of them are issuing threats if Senate Republicans even attempt confirmation hearings.

And they’re also pointing to the alleged fact that Ginsburg’s dying wish was that she be replaced by the next president.

But what was Ginsburg’s opinion in 2016 when Scalia died and Obama tried to fill his seat?

Why, she felt it was perfectly okay for Obama to fill a SCOTUS seat in an election year!

Just take a look at the Fox News report on Ginsburg’s 2016 opinion:

The death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg prompted key Washington figures to change their tune on whether a high-court vacancy should be filled so close to an election – and even the late jurist seems to have reversed herself on the issue.

Ginsburg, whose death was announced Friday, reportedly told her granddaughter Clara Spera, “My most fervent wish is that I will not be replaced until a new president is installed.” That desire jibes with Democrats, including presidential nominee Joe Biden and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, whose initial statements included both tributes to Ginsburg and warnings to President Trump that the next nominee could only be named by the winner of the November presidential election.

But in 2016, when a lame-duck President Obama tabbed Merrick Garland to replace the late conservative Justice Antonin Scalia, Democratic leaders had no problem with the move. And neither did Ginsburg.

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“There’s nothing in the Constitution that says the president stops being the president in his last year,” Ginsburg said in a 2016 New York Times interview in which she called for Garland to receive a confirmation vote in the Senate.

As for whether the Senate should take up a vote on Garland, Ginsburg said at the time, “That’s their job.”

Who really knows if Ginsburg really had a dying wish to be replaced by the next president?

But she was absolutely right in 2016.

Trump is still the President until January 2021 at least and he has the constitutional right to fill the vacant SCOTUS seat left by Ginsburg.

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