Conservatives’ Supreme Court Dreams Move Closer to Reality
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
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The sudden U.S. Supreme Court vacancy means that what once were conservative legal fantasies may soon be realistic goals.
Overturning the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade abortion rights ruling could be just the beginning should President Donald Trump succeed in appointing a successor to the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. The vacancy could produce the biggest ideological shift of a Supreme Court seat in decades.