evidence: After Donald Trump became president in 2017, he appointed two new ultra-conservative justices to the Supreme Court — Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh — emboldening anti-abortion rights activists, policymakers, and right wing, antifeminist judges. [...] Shortly before the 2020 presidential election, staunch feminist Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died. Despite the imminent election he would soon lose, Donald Trump nominated fundamentalist anti-abortion advocate Amy Coney Barrett to fill Ginsburg’s seat. The Republican Senate leadership confirmed Barrett’s nomination in record time, tilting the balance of the court to a 6-3 hard right supermajority with the three Trump appointees.