RIP RBG

   "Let the people speak,''  said  GOP Sen. Mitch McConnell in 2016, nearly a year before a presidential election when a vacancy appeared on the Supreme Court. McConnell stalled Senate action until after the election, so the new Republican president could choose a replacement.
   That was then. Now, Republicans want a replacement nomination for the deceased Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg before she is even in the ground, and the next presidential election is mere weeks away.
   Justice Ginsburg died Thursday, Sept. 17, the day before Rosh Hashanah, but will not be buried until Monday, Sept. 28, the day after Yom Kippur.
   Yet the president says he will announce a replacement nomination this weekend, two days before the burial.
   So much for respect and tradition when power is at stake.