If Donald Trump were to win a second term in 2020, he would be able to appoint more conservative judges to the Supreme Court and build a rock-solid conservative majority, possibly for decades to come
WASHINGTON - With 86-year-old liberal Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg enduring a series of health scares, the question of whether President Donald Trump will get to make yet another U.S. Supreme Court appointment before the 2020 election lingers as the nine justices prepare to begin their new term next week.
Trump, who took office in 2017 and is seeking re-election next year, already has appointed two justices - conservatives Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch - who have pushed the court further to the right. McConnell, who has made confirmation of Trump judicial appointees a paramount priority, made clear his intentions when asked in May at an event in his home state of Kentucky what he would do if a Supreme Court vacancy arose in 2020.
The diminutive and frail-looking justice also appeared in recent weeks alongside Justice Sonia Sotomayor at an event celebrating retired Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, 89, the first woman to serve on the court. “If people thought that Justice Kavanaugh’s confirmation fight was ugly, just wait until the next one,” Davis said, referring to contentious Senate hearings in which Kavanaugh denied allegations of decades-old sexual misconduct.
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