Politicians are arguing over how she will be replaced as a member of the US Supreme Court.
The Supreme Court is the highest court in the US and its nine lifetime-appointed justices are hugely influential in American life.
Each is nominated by the sitting president and their rulings can shape policy on everything, often on divisive issues such as abortion, execution and gay marriage.The politics of the Supreme Court appointments are significant with regard to the law of the land.The political firestorm, already ignited within minutes of her death, surrounds the question of who will replace her, when will it be, and what that will do to the political balance of the Supreme Court.
It sounds like he wants a hasty replacement and that has infuriated Democratic opponents who point out the same man led a Republican block on an Obama Supreme Court nomination in 2016 because it was made in the February before a November election. Democrats say the same principles should apply - the man who wins on 3 November should make the decision on who replaces Justice Ginsburg.
Their fear is the alternative - that an attempt is made to push through a Trump appointee before polling day, or even in the"lame duck" period between polling day and 20 January when a new president is sworn in.
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