Perhaps there are serious arguments for why President Trump and the U.S. Senate should not exercise their legal authority to nominate and confirm a justice to the Supreme Court in the months before the 2020 election.

Violating Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s alleged dying wish is not one of them.

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