Ruth Bader Ginsburg died at her home on Friday at the age of 87.

With less than two months left until the US presidential election, a political battle is now beginning over who will be appointed the next judge in the US Supreme Court. 

- This is a very big political news alongside the sad.

We have already received signals from Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.

He says that if Donald Trump comes up with a nomination proposal for a judge, then they will do everything they can to vote through that person before the election, says SVT's correspondent Stefan Åsberg.

The highest judge in the United States consists of nine judges who are elected for life.

When they resign or die, the incumbent president must nominate new candidates.

These candidates later vote for the Senate. 

Wants to have influence over the court

New judges are traditionally elected with a so-called super-majority in the Senate, which means that two thirds of 100 members must vote yes. 

- He has previously said that one of his political goals is to ensure the Republicans' influence over the Supreme Court.

He has already received two Republican judges nominated.

If the Republicans and Donald Trump have time to get another judge through before the election, the Republicans will have six members of the Supreme Court and the Democrats three, says Stefan Åsberg and continues:

- The Supreme Court is the highest legal body, this is where you decide disputes between states.

On the other hand, Republicans have invoked the possibility of electing new judges with a simple majority, a so-called "nuclear option", which would only require 51 votes.

Right now, Republicans have 53 seats in the Senate.

Last wish

Senator Mitch McConnell and the Republican majority leader say his intention is to get the Senate to vote as soon as Trump nominates a candidate for the post.

It reports the American public service company NPR.

Just days before his death, Ginsburg appealed for Donald Trump not to appoint her successor.

She read out her statement to her granddaughter Clara Spera, reports the American public service company NPR.  

"My strongest wish is that I will not be replaced until a new president is installed."

If a judge is elected before the presidential election, Ginsburg will likely be replaced by a conservative judge, which would affect the legal interpretation of constitutional issues in the United States.