Well, Friday night we all got hit by the terrible news that Ruth Bader Ginsburg has passed away at the age of 87 or fifth bout of cancer.

And I was talking to someone and they said I think at least what I felt is like you kind of felt like she was going to hang on until after this election.

And it was clear that she was fighting to hang on and she's a very strong person, but her strength ran out.

You know, we're all human and she passed away Friday night.

And the question is what does this mean? I mean, the first thing is you you honor the passing of an icon someone who's a trailblazer for really women, certainly the legal field, but she I think she was bigger than that where she stood up for an evolving sense of what.

What human rights were over her career really transcended generations, you know, I mean what a full life. I think someone said it's like, you know, you can't imagine living a more impactful, more important life leading a more important career than she did.

So on one hand, you just look up and say, wow, like so grateful that she was among us and did what she has done.

And that lasted unfortunately for apparently about 30 seconds before then people started turning towards what this means in terms of the Supreme Court, this election, whether Trump is going to nominate someone which I think he announced he is going to.

And then whether the Senate would move forward to confirm new justice, despite the fact that the election is at this point 44 days away and the average Supreme Court confirmation process takes 2.2 months and that's an enormous circumstance.

So, so to me, it's really awful that after sandbagging Merrick Garland in 2016 where they say, hey, look, it's only a year until the election, like let's not deal with this until after the election.

And then now when you're in the reverse situation, but instead of having a year, you have six weeks and you're like, no, no, this time we're going to we're just going to cram this through because it's, you know, a different situation.

Like that strikes, I think any reasonable person is utterly ridiculous and awful and bullshit, like, you know, it's just a clear double standard where you take one approach if it's a justice that represents.

You point you don't like and then when the shoes on the other foot, then then you take a totally different approach.

So, here's a couple of dots. One, like, it's heartbreaking like she was a legend. Even President Trump was asked, like, if we got a they got a very real candid reaction of him because he found out the news Friday night from a reporter after his rally.

And which quick comment his team should have told him between the walk from the rally to his press. That's what we would do. Like, hey, by the way, so and so died or this broke news, but anyway, he did say, wow, like, I have nothing to say except she's an amazing woman, like what she lived an amazing life.

This is very sad, something like that.

And then it is heartbreaking. The reality is, though, what you just said is that this is going to be extremely politicized and we're not even going to wait. It's just going to it's already started. So I thought it'd be we wanted to hop on the pod and break this down.

Because this is your September surprise. This will be the focal point of election. And Tim Alberta, who's one of our buddies from the campaign, just wrote a piece in Politico talking about what Trump and McConnell would or could do.

But one of the things that's fascinating, Andrew, and this is why it matters is that the Supreme Court is, and I quote, the most and quote, the most important factor in voting for president.

Or when they go to vote for 21% of the electorate, 21% of all voters. This is the most, this is the thing they care about.

So thoughts on how this affects Republicans, affects Democrats, like it's going to affect this is the most important thing for almost everybody when it comes to voting.

And you now have this hanging of the balance before one of the more important elections we've ever had.

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