The Trump administration and the President himself said he will announce his choice next week and described his nominee in glowing terms. He also said the anti abortion people will be happy with the choice. The republican party in general would like to see Roe vs. Wade overturned, not because their moral values are higher than others but because it translates into votes and one of their divisive tactics.
Over the years President Trump had no stand on the issue until he ran for President. He choose the matter as a campaign issue like his party and catered to the religious right. His extreme actions with women show he has no real claim on the issue and since the campaign, promised to nominate supreme court judges who would over turn the status quo on abortion.
This writer believes a so called conservative court may not even over turn Roe vs. Wade and for good reasons. First the law is well established and prior to Scalia's death the court was conservative for a number of years and did not over turn the decision. Also, it was a conservative court that made the decision possible and a conservative supreme court that upheld the challenge to the Affordable Care Act and chief justice John Roberts who was appointed to the court by former President George W. Bush, cast the deciding vote.
The big problem Trump and the republican party have today fall on the extreme ideology, and today most conservative judges do not use ideology from the bench as a whole. And most people do not understand that cases that reach the supreme court are not cut and dry cases. Also in the case of Roe vs. Wade, this writer is not aware of the testimony in that case to be refuted.
So after the announcement next week look for all the hype that will take place on both sides and for Trump to put his nominee up on a pedestal, because Trump does nothing but great things.
This commentary written by Joe Lorio
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