Hello, GabFest listeners. This is Mike Peska. I'm the host of The GIST, a daily show from Slate,

which talks largely about politics. Check it out. You might like it. But I did an interview with

Emily Bazelon. You know her from the GabFest. I'm sure there's no one you'd like to hear from more

about the passing of RBG. So we bring that to you in our feed. It's also in

the feed of the gist. Enjoy.

Hi, this is Mike Peska. And this is, I guess we're going to call it an emergency gist and a sad

gist because Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had died.

According to NPR days before her death, Ginsburg dictated a statement to her granddaughter,

which said, my most fervent wish is that I will not be replaced until a new president

is installed. That wish, I believe, turns to fear with Mitch McConnell's statement

saying, essentially, we shall go forward when given a nominee with a vote.

Joining me now is Emily Bazelon, who is staff writer for the New York Times Magazine,

Senior Research Fellow at Yale Law School,

and of course, contributor and a panelist on the Slate Political Gab Fest.

Emily, thanks for joining me.

You're welcome.

And also, I think, condolences because you did know Ruth Bader Ginsburg fairly well.

Is that right?

Yes. Justice Ginsburg served on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals with

my grandfather years ago, and she lived in the same building in the Watergate as my grandparents.

And so I knew her also personally because my grandmother had Taylor, like a clothesmaker, who Justice Ginsburg admired, who for a while was also making her some clothes.

So I've also interviewed her professionally.

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