Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer -- see photo above😉 -- claims that :
"Justice Ginsburg’s dying wish was that she not be replaced until a new president is installed. Republicans are poised to not only ignore her wishes, but to replace her with someone who could tear down everything that she built. This reprehensible power grab is a cynical attack on the legitimacy of the Court."
A Supreme Court member's dying wish is irrelevant to the president's duty to name a replacement for the deceased justice. The expressed preference of the late, great Justice Ginsburg for how she should be replaced or by whom is of no importance, since it's not Justice's Ginsburg's seat on the High Court for her to dispose of as she saw fit. What if her dying wish had been for her replacement to be at least as liberal as she was? Should a conservative president have felt constrained by her wish? Of course not! It is not at all inappropriate for the Republicans to, as Schumer puts it, "ignore her wishes."
This is not a "reprehensible power grab" nor is it "a cynical attack on the legitimacy of the Court." It is, however, an exercise of raw power that ignores the grievance felt by many Democrats for McConnell's refusal to bring up Judge Merrick Garland's nomination for a vote. Then again, there is a series of grievances that Republicans carry with them regarding the Democrats' treatment of GOP nominees for the Supreme Court, going back to Brett Kavanaugh, Clarence Thomas, and Robert Bork.
It would, of course, be desirable for the Democrats and Republicans of the Senate to work out a more civilized, less vicious way of handling Supreme Court nominations. But it's hard for me to see that McConnell and Schumer are the right people to represent the two parties in reaching a modus vivendi on the subject.