Garcia: Trump’s legacy achievement is a brazenly partisan Supreme Court
FILE - Members of the Supreme Court pose for a group photo at the Supreme Court in Washington, April 23, 2021. Seated from left are Associate Justice Samuel Alito, Associate Justice Clarence Thomas, Chief Justice John Roberts, Associate Justice Stephen Breyer and Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Standing from left are Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh, Associate Justice Elena Kagan, Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch and Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett.
Trump’s legacy achievement is the fact that he got to pick three justices to the Supreme Court during his four years in office. That’s three more SCOTUS appointments than Jimmy Carter got during an equivalent period of time. To solidify his standing at the end of the 2016 primary races, Trump released a shortlist of potential Supreme Court selections, a group of candidates provided to him by the ultra-conservative Federalist Society.
What could have been a 5-3 liberal majority, with Chief Justice John Roberts as the swing vote, is now a 5-3 conservative majority. It could alter the shape of the Supreme Court for a generation or more. Of course, the most explosive decision so far from this Supreme Court came with the overturning of Roe v. Wade, the 1973 SCOTUS decision that made abortion legal across the country.
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