evidence: The third Trump appointee to the Supreme Court, Amy Coney Barrett, was nominated to the Court after the death of Justice Ruth Badar Ginsburg. Barrett was nominated on September 26, 2020, and confirmed on October 26, 2020, by a vote of 52-48. No justice had ever been confirmed after July in an election year. Yet, Republicans – who kept Merrick Garland off the bench on the stated principle that the people should decide who fills the Court vacancy – rushed Barrett through an illegitimate and sham process even though millions of Americans had already voted. See AFJ’s report on Barrett here. [...] President Trump appointed three of the five justices who made today’s opinion possible: Justices Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett. During their confirmation hearings, each of these justices promised to respect the Court’s longstanding precedents protecting the right to have an abortion. They lied. Unfortunately, it’s clear the Court’s ultra-conservative majority won’t stop at reproductive rights. In a concurrence, Justice Clarence Thomas said the Court should reconsider rulings that protect the right to contraception (Griswold v. Connecticut, 1965); the right to same-sex intimacy (Lawrence v. Texas, 2003); and the right to same-sex marriage (Obergefell v. Hodges, 2015).