6/29/2018

ABORTION/NOMINATIONS/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Now that President Donald Trump has the opportunity to appoint a new justice to the Supreme Court, some abortion opponents hope that Roe v. Wade will end up overturned or gutted — and they have already been working towards that moment. Over the past year, state legislatures in Iowa, Louisiana and Mississippi have advanced strict limits on abortion that some lawmakers believe could trigger a successful challenge to the landmark 1973 Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion nationwide…When Trump ran for president in 2016, he pledged to appoint ‘pro-life’ justices to the Supreme Court, while his running mate, now-vice president Mike Pence, said that he hoped to see Roe v. Wade end up on the ‘ash heap of history.’ Trump’s first Supreme Court pick, made after Senate Republicans blocked President Barack Obama’s pick to fill a Supreme Court vacancy, was Neil Gorsuch, who has been a reliable conservative vote. Trump said he will pick from a list of 25 conservative candidates.”

Clare Foran, “The plan to overturn Roe v. Wade at the Supreme Court is already in motion,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, June 29, 2018 2:12 pm