Source: Detroit News
Republican vice presidential candidate Mike Pence campaigned in socially conservative west Michigan Thursday, reassuring a crowd here that Donald Trump will appoint Supreme Court justices focused on overturning four decades of abortion rights rulings if he’s elected president.
The U.S. Supreme Court has four Republican-nominated justices and four Democrat-appointed justices since the death of conservative Justice Antonin Scalia in mid-February. In May, Trump released a list of 11 potential nominees, including a Michigan Supreme Court justice and a U.S. Court of Appeals judge from Michigan, whom he said reflect “constitutional principles I value.”
“If we appoint strict constructionists to the Supreme Court as Donald Trump intends to do, I believe we will see Roe v. Wade consigned to the ash heap of history where it belongs,” Pence said during a town hall-style event at the DeltaPlex in suburban Grand Rapids. . .
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