Clinging to her seat until her dying breath when it was clear even back in the Obama administration that her declining health and advanced age were becoming a liability.
Dying as she did in the midst of an election that makes "contentious" seem like an understatement, she has as a parting gift to the nation dumped gasoline on the fires already burning. It was unnecessarily partisan.
I don't fault Republicans for doing what Democrats would have done in the same circumstances, though it's hard to reconcile the Merrick Garland stonewalling with fast tracking a replacement now. The exigency of having a full court to hear election-related problems is real, though. I suppose that there is also a difference between a lame duck President not up for re-election trying to ram a nominee through a hostile Senate and a President up for re-election trying to put a nominee through a friendly Senate, not only in terms of political power but also in terms of the reasoning.
ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*