NYT: Why Ruth Bader Ginsburg Refused to Step Down

“I think that Mother (RBG), like many others, expected that Hillary Clinton would win the nomination and the presidency, and she wanted the first female president to name her successor,” - Jane Ginsburg

“If she wanted someone with her values to fill her seat, the best assurance was to leave when there was a Democratic president and Senate. Obama could have gotten anyone he wanted confirmed at that point.” - Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of the law school at the University of California at Berkeley,

“I was struck by how many people I spoke with, including friends, acquaintances and former clerks, felt she should have resigned at the time and that her staying on was terribly self-centered” - Dorothy Samuels, a former legal editorial writer for The New York Times