Trump To Fulfill Promise To The Religious Right With Supreme Court Pick

By Brian Tashman | January 31, 2017 5:04 pm

Throughout his presidential campaign, Donald Trump assured Religious Right voters that, whatever their feelings about him as an individual, he would give them the Supreme Court justice of their dreams. Just a few days ago, the president told David Brody of the Christian Broadcasting Network that evangelicals “will love my pick” and “will be represented very fairly.”

Anti-abortion activists have cited the potential of a Supreme Court populated with Trump nominees as a reason to push through extreme bills curtailing abortion rights. The anti-LGBTQ group National Organization for Marriage announced that they “have real hope that Obergefell can be reversed and marriage can be restored to our nation’s laws during the first Trump term” as a result of his pledge to appoint “justices in the mold of Antonin Scalia.”

While he has often been portrayed as a social moderate, Trump has consistently pledged to support the Religious Right’s policy agenda. Appointing a like-minded justice to the Supreme Court would be one of the most consequential ways he could advance the radical movement’s goals for decades in the future.

Court decisions have had a huge impact on issues like abortion rights, LGBTQ equality and gun safety, and Trump has vowed to move the courts far to the right on all of these issues.

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