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Roe v. Wade hangs in balance as reshaped court prepares to hear biggest abortion case in decades

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Share When he ran for president in 2016, then-candidate Donald Trump promised to nominate Supreme Court justices who would vote to end the constitutional right to an abortion. If the court were to overturn Roe and Casey , access to abortion in America would shrink dramatically and immediately. Katie Barlow).

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Stephen Breyer, pragmatic liberal, will retire at end of term

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Share Justice Stephen Breyer, a devoted pragmatist and the senior member of the Supreme Court’s liberal wing, will retire from the court at the end of the 2021-22 term, NBC News reported on Wednesday. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit. appeals court judge named Ruth Bader Ginsburg to fill White’s seat.

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