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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
Politics
William Roberts

The US Senate’s path to a Supreme Court hostile to Roe v Wade

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell seals a deal with Vice President Mike Pence in 2017 to support Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch, centre, after blocking President Barack Obama's pick a year earlier [J Scott Applewhite/AP Photo]

The path to a 6-3 conservative supermajority on the US Supreme Court that appears poised to overturn women’s right to an abortion in the United States traces back to political machinations by Republicans in 2016.

Justice Antonin Scalia, a celebrated judicial conservative who had served on the court since 1986, had died suddenly in his sleep at the age of 79 while on a quail hunting trip in Texas.

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