President-elect Donald Trump’s victory in Tuesday’s election has progressive court watchers fearful that the Supreme Court may turn sharply to the right.
While it’s unclear precisely who Trump would appoint to fill the vacancy created by Justice Antonin Scalia’s death, liberal groups have already begun to panic. Elizabeth Wydra, president of the progressive Constitutional Accountability Center think tank and law firm, told reporters we will live in a “new and different world” if the president-elect gains the opportunity to stock the court with new justices.
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