Slate's Mark Joseph Stern has been hearing the name Amy Coney Barrett for a couple of years now.

Ever since this story came out that President Trump was saving Barrett to someday replace Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Like over the last three years, pretty much any time I tweet anything about Justice

Ginsburg, trolls will respond with something along the lines of, she will die and we will replace

her with Amy Coney-Barritt.

Like, it has been a constant drumbeat for three years now.

As soon as the news broke of Justice Ginsburg's death, the name on everyone's lips was

Amy Coney-Barrant.

I mean, I honestly feel like Republicans just placed her outside the cemetery gates,

and they were like, you know, as soon as Justice Ginsburg takes her last breath,

like, we will install you. And I just feel like I have been trolled and, you know, many legal

analysts have been trolled about this for a very long time. It's like the maximal troll. It is

the final stage of the Trump troll. Like, this is it. It just doesn't get any trollier.

I mean, you held out the possibility that Amy Coney-Barritt would turn down the nomination.

Why?

Well, because if you listen to her friends and her supporters, like, they all say she's really

smart, which I believe.

She's really nice in person, which I believe.

And, you know, she'll be a thoughtful, analytical judge.

And I guess, like, it seemed to me that if she were really as nice and as empathetic and as thoughtful as they claimed, that she would, at a minimum, not agree to be trotted out at a Rose Garden ceremony intentionally designed to look exactly like RBGs before RBG is literally in the ground.

Like, it just seems so ghoulish.

And she even mentioned at this ceremony, like the flags are still at half staff.

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