A professor envisioned a legal revolution. It happened, but not how he thought
Canaan has never seemed further away. It was Donald Trump to whom voters granted the power to transform the judiciary, which he did by appointing three judges to the Supreme Court and hundreds more to the courts below it. The conservative legal movement’s decadeslong quest to push the courts to the right, which would have ended in ignominy and failure had Clinton won, culminated in triumph instead.
TL;DR
- Donald Trump appointed three judges to the Supreme Court and many more to lower courts.
- These appointments transformed the judiciary.
- The conservative legal movement achieved its decadeslong goal of pushing courts to the right.
- This outcome was a triumph, unlike what might have occurred if Clinton had won.