The death of liberal legal legend Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has left one of the most decisive Supreme Court seats in recent memory vacant and 2020 in a uniquely high-stakes tailspin. Given the already unprecedented case of a Democratic Supreme Court appointee dying right before a Republican president and Republican-controlled Senate are up for election, President Trump and Mitch McConnell have the extraordinary debacle of whether to safeguard future Senate prospects and abide by the Senate majority leader's decision not to hold hearings or votes on Barack Obama's appointment of Merrick Garland to replace Antonin Scalia or to throw caution to the wind in a last-ditch attempt to secure a conservative Supreme Court for a generation with a gamble on a nomination.