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In 2016, Donald Trump made a commitment to appoint, once elected president, a judge to the Supreme Court acceptable to the religious right. During the second presidential debate with his Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton, he even swore to appoint a lawyer hostile to the right to abortion enshrined in the Roe V. Wade judgment, rendered in 1973.
Distanced in voting intentions at the national level, even if it is only indicative, as in certain key states for his re-election, the President of the United States replayed this card on Wednesday, September 9 by giving in advance the list of its candidates for the highest legal body in the United States whose members are appointed for life, usually for a quarter of a century. The Conservatives have a majority of one seat. To re-mobilize his electorate, he assured that “ one, two, three or even four ” of the nine Supreme Court seats could become vacant during the next term. An opportunity according to him to anchor it on the right for decades.
Donald Trump has portrayed a true apocalypse in the event of Joe Biden’s victory in November. “Radical judges” that the latter would name according to him “Will delete the second amendment [sur le droit à disposer d’une arme], censor political rhetoric and demand that taxpayers fund abortion until birth. They will give unelected bureaucrats the power to destroy millions of American jobs ”.
“They will remove the reference to God from the pledge of allegiance. They will unilaterally declare the death penalty unconstitutional, even for the most depraved mass murderers. They will erase national borders, paralyze police services and grant new protections to anarchists, rioters, violent criminals and terrorists ”, continued the president against all evidence.
Long registered on the electoral lists as a Democrat, fluctuating on voluntary terminations of pregnancy, Donald Trump had deemed it necessary in 2016 to give pledges. The list of its candidates had thus been prepared by conservative organizations such as the Federalist Society.
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