President Donald Trump has said he will leave questions over abortion access to the states and has yet to raise the issue during his second term. But research into his judicial nominees by reporter Christine Fernando found that Trump will leave a legacy of anti-abortion judges long after he leaves the White House.
Roughly half of his 17 nominees for the federal courts have made public their anti-abortion views, been associated with anti-abortion groups or defended abortion restrictions. Fernando found that several of Trump’s nominees had legally challenged the use of the common abortion medication mifepristone, which has been used safely for decades.
Experts say slowly packing the federal courts with anti-abortion judges is a way for Trump to be responsible for rolling back abortion rights in the future without having to call attention to the strategy by going through Congress or issuing executive orders.
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