Just weeks after Donald Trump was elected, University of Utah law professor Teneille Brown told students she believed Roe v. Wade would be overturned if the new president succeeded in his plan to “shake up” the U.S. Supreme Court by adding more conservative justices.
“I remember their jaws dropped,” Brown, whose research focuses on medical ethics, said. “They just looked at me like, ‘no way.’ ”
Now that the president is about to announce his pick to replace longtime Justice Anthony Kennedy, observers on both side of the great abortion divide are holding their breath, some with hope; others with dread.