Regardless of the next president, Ginsburg said it is likely that person "will have a few appointments to make." | AP Photo Ruth Bader Ginsburg: 'I don't want to think about' Trump as president

For Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the reality that Donald Trump could be elected president is one that she wants to ignore.

"I don't want to think about that possibility, but if it should be, then everything is up for grabs," Ginsburg told The Associated Press in an interview published Friday, conducted the previous day, in which the 83-year-old liberal justice suggested that she sees Hillary Clinton as the next president.


Regardless of the next president, "whoever she may be," as Ginsburg told the AP, it is likely that person "will have a few appointments to make."

Ginsburg is the oldest justice on the court, followed by Anthony Kennedy, 79, and Stephen Breyer, 77.

Remarking that the "public got the wrong impression" of the late conservative Justice Antonin Scalia, her closest friend on the court before his death in February, Ginsburg said the institution is a "paler place" without him.