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Report: Half of Trump’s Judicial Nominees Have Anti-Abortion Records
Whitney Hermandorfer was the first Trump nominee to the federal judiciary to be confirmed in his second term. Like several others, she has an anti-abortion history.Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call/Zuma
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During his campaign for a second term in office, President Donald Trump claimed that he would leave abortion “to the states” if reelected.
Trump has, in fact, managed to quietly shape the national abortion politics in his second term. According to a new analysis from the Associated Press, roughly half of Trump’s nominees to the federal judiciary thus far have records of being openly anti-abortion or associating with anti-abortion groups.
This is not entirely surprising for anyone who has been paying attention. As my colleague Madison Pauly outlined back in January, packing the federal courts with anti-abortion judges is one of the many insidious measures that reproductive rights advocates warned Trump could take to restrict access to abortion nationwide. But the new analysis from AP reveals the greatest detail to date about the extent of these nominees’ opposition to abortion.
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