For Trump’s appointees, judgment day comes ever nearer
About 11 minutes into last week’s hearing on abortion rights at the US supreme court, Sonia Sotomayor, one of the three liberal-leaning justices left on the court after its sharp rightward shift under Donald Trump, took the floor.
Sotomayor began by noting that, in the past 30 years, 15 justices from varying political backgrounds had supported the right to abortion up to the point of foetal viability.
