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Trump's Lasting Legacy: Conservative Supermajority on Supreme Court

Masood Farivar

   WASHINGTON - "The Supreme Court really let us down," U.S. President
   Donald Trump fumed on Twitter on December12. "No Wisdom, No Courage!"

   The tweet came just hours after the high court dismissed a long-shot
   lawsuit brought by the Texas attorney general against four battleground
   states that Trump lost to President-elect Joe Biden. The suit sought to
   overturn the election results, but the court refused to even consider
   the case.

   It was not the first time the Supreme Court had angered Trump with an
   unfriendly ruling. Just five days earlier, the justices had unanimously
   ruled against another Republican attempt to undo Biden's victory in
   Pennsylvania.

   While the court declined to be drawn into Trump's improbable quest to
   undo the election results, the outgoing president could still claim
   bragging rights for making the Supreme Court-- and the broader federal
   judiciary-- more conservative.

   For a one-term president, Trump has had a remarkable run of good luck
   with his Supreme Court appointments. In just four years, he has
   appointed three justices-- more than any other president in one term
   since Richard M. Nixon -- helping to usher in a dramatic ideological
   shift on the bench by forging a new 6-3 conservative majority.

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