Imagine if she had mentored and sponsored a younger replacement in 2000 and then retired in 2010. Where would we be?

Now that Skeletor has died with no one obvious to replace her, the Judiciary Committee will probably grind to a halt when it comes to confirming judges.

You really believe that in the last two decades, she had not mentioned or influenced a new generation of politicians and that none of her colleagues anticipated a scenario in which she dies or retires without a plan?