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 Barrett.

Like, no. It has been a constant drum beat for three years now.

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

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 Barrett 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 and a litigal 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 seemed so ghoulish and she even mentioned at this ceremony like the flags are still at half staff.

Yeah, because she just died a week ago.

Of course, this appointment, it's not about being nice.

It's about power who's got it and who doesn't.

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