Donald Trump on Friday delivered his end of the bargain he made with Republican elites and voters years ago. Ankush Khardori writes
Photo: Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images Today, Donald Trump delivered his end of the bargain he made with Republican elites and voters years ago. Support me despite my corruption, my gross personal failings and transgressions, and my persistent debasement of the presidency, and I’ll do your bidding on the issue closest to your hearts: abortion.
The outcome in Dobbs, coming on the heels of other major victories for conservatives at the Court just this week, presents a challenge for observers in the media who might otherwise want to avoid journalistic clichés — that the result reflects a Court that has been fully captured by the right; that there is good reason to be worried about the status of previously well-established constitutional rights that are coded as liberal; that the politically and culturally revanchist conservative...
Like the leaked draft, Alito’s final opinion offers a preemptive response, though not a particularly convincing one. At one point the man who whined about a relatively unremarkable opinion article about him writes that “we cannot allow our decisions to be affected by any extraneous influences such as concern about the public’s reaction to our work.
After winning the presidency, Trump and McConnell reshaped the courts at every level, installing conservative ideologues wherever possible, including some with very dubious credentials but potent political connections in the Republican Party. As a former adviser for McConnell put it, he knew “that from a legacy point of view … this is the most important thing you can do.
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