Ginsburg Successor Could Shift Law on Abortion, Health-Care Act
- Trump has chance to appoint third justice to Supreme Court
- Supreme Court shift could be biggest since 1991 Thomas arrival
An American flag flies outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., on May 4.
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A conservative successor to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg would move the U.S. Supreme Court closer to overturning the right to abortion, threaten the Affordable Care Act and, if confirmed quickly enough, strengthen President Donald Trump’s hand in legal disputes over the November election.
Ginsburg’s death Friday gives the president and his Republican allies an opening to leave a transformational mark on a court already shaped by two Trump appointments. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell vowed Friday to bring a new Trump nominee up for a vote, even though the election is less than seven weeks away.