WATCH FULL RALLY: President realDonaldTrump has confirmed he will pick a woman to fill the vacancy on the Supreme Court during a raucous rally in the key swing state of North Carolina.
WATCH FULL RALLY: President Donald Trump has confirmed he will pick a woman to fill the vacancy on the Supreme Court during a raucous rally in the key swing state of North Carolina. “It will be a woman, a very talented, very brilliant woman,"President Trump said. "We haven’t chosen yet, but we have numerous women on the list.
That legacy is now in doubt if President Trump nominates her successor, with the makeup of the Supreme Court skewing to a 6-3 conservative majority. Circuit Court Judge Amy Coney Barrett is considered the frontrunner to fill the vacant seat. She is an avowed social conservative and fervently anti-abortion, putting the future of Roe v Wade in doubt.
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