"No amount of hagiography can obscure the fact that, while Ginsburg is responsible for a great number of landmark legal decisions, her legacy may be sorely tarnished by one terrible one: refusing to retire when Obama could have named her replacement."http://bit.ly/2BH9t8p
Republicans took the Senate in the 2014 midterms. The Mother Jones article was talking about RBG retiring before that, when a Democratic President could have nominated a replacement and a Democratic Senate could have confirmed that replacement.