PORTLAND, Maine (AP) – Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine is calling the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg “one of the most prominent legal luminaries of our time.”

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said he’ll call for a vote on President Donald Trump’s nominee. Democrats say Republicans should follow the precedent that GOP legislators set in 2016 by refusing to consider a Supreme Court choice in the run-up to an election.

Collins in a statement Saturday said “Given the proximity of the presidential election, however, I do not believe that the Senate should vote on the nominee prior to the election,” Collins wrote. “In fairness to the American people, who will either be re-electing the President or selecting a new one, the decision on a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court should be made by the President who is elected on November 3rd.”

“In order for the American people to have faith in their elected officials, we must act fairly and consistently — no matter which political party is in power,” Collins wrote in a press release. “President Trump has the constitutional authority to make a nomination to fill the Supreme Court vacancy, and I would have no objection to the Senate Judiciary Committee’s beginning the process of reviewing his nominee’s credentials.”

Both independent Sen. Angus King and Democratic U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree of Maine say there should be no successor until after the election.

President Donald Trump is urging the Republican-run Senate to consider “without delay” his upcoming nomination to fill the Supreme Court vacancy created by the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg just six weeks before the election.

The White House is moving quickly to select a nominee, likely before the first presidential debate 10 days away.

Ginsburg spent her final years on the bench as the unquestioned leader of the court’s liberal wing.

Democrats raised more than $31 million in the hours after Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death. The stunning sum demonstrates how the liberal icon’s passing and the contentious Supreme Court nomination fight that lies ahead are already galvanizing the party’s base.

The money was raised by noon Saturday after news of her death on Friday. Word of the fundraising total comes from a donation ticker on the website of ActBlue, the party’s online fundraising platform.

The 2020 campaign has already delivered record-shattering fundraising totals for the Democrats, Ginsburg’s death brought a new impetus, particularly after Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell pledged to move forward with finding a new justice.

The remaining eight Supreme Court justices and two former colleagues are speaking out about their colleague Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Some, like Clarence Thomas, and Stephen Breyer, served with her for the entirety of or nearly all of her 27 years and wrote emotional statements about her death.

The justices all spoke of her undying devotion to the law and her grace as a colleague. “I will dearly miss my friend,” Thomas wrote.

Justice Neil Gorsuch had fond memories of “all the opera she tried so valiantly to teach me” and her “sweet tooth at lunch.” Retired Justice David Souter says, “I loved her to pieces.”

Ginsburg died Friday at her home in Washington. She was 87.