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With the retirement of the Justice Anthony Kennedy on Wednesday, the liberal media was in a tailspin thinking of all the horrors President Trump would unleash on America with yet another Supreme Court nomination. On ABC’s World News Tonight, they were fearful for the future of Roe v. Wade and were hopefully speculating Chief Justice John Roberts would become the new swing vote for the sake of the court.
ABC ran three different reports on the bombshell development and at the start of the third, sensationalist anchor David Muir was worried about Trump’s promise to overturn the controversial abortion decision.
“[A] lot of reporting already on this, about what then-candidate Donald Trump said in the third debate, often a pivotal debate. He was asked by the moderator, Chris Wallace, and this was the actual question, do you want to see the court overturn Roe vs. Wade,” Muir prefaced to ABC’s chief legal analyst, Dan Abrams. After playing a clip of Trump saying it would be overturned really quickly, Muir wondered: “So, bottom line, Dan, how likely is this?”
While Abrams did admit “Roe vs. Wade is as vulnerable as it's been,” he tried to ease Muir’s woes by suggesting “that doesn't necessarily mean that it gets overturned.” “Justices tend to be very deferential to previous decisions that they’ve already ruled on,” he added.
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