Newsweek
Political commentator Cheri Jacobus warned that former President Donald Trump “should be very worried” after the Supreme Court on Friday overturned women’s legal right to an abortion.
The Supreme Court’s conservative majority ended nearly five decades of precedent by overturning the judicial body’s landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, which had established a constitutional right to abortion. Trump has been largely credited for the controversial ruling, as the former Republican president appointed three of the justices who voted with the majority.
Trump hailed the decision and took credit, describing the ruling as “the biggest WIN for LIFE in a generation” in a statement. The former president said it was “only made possible because I delivered everything as promised, including nominating and getting three highly respected and strong Constitutionalists confirmed to the United States Supreme Court.”
Meanwhile, The New York Times and The Washington Post reported that Trump has raised concerns about the impact the ruling will have on Republicans. Jacobus, who describes herself as a “right-of-center” independent and a “Never Trumper,” contended that the GOP would move on from Trump now that Roe was overturned.
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“Trump now should be very worried. Leonard Leo & the Conways don’t need him anymore. He gave them the SCOTUS they’ve dreamed of,” the commentator wrote on Twitter Friday.
“GOP will now unleash the dogs on him. We may feel good about it, but make no mistake about it. We lost. They won,” she added. “It was never really about Trump.”
Leo is co-chairman of the conservative Federalist Society, and is credited with writing the list of names of potential conservative judges to appoint to the Supreme Court that Trump released during his 2016 presidential campaign. This list, which included the three conservatives ultimately nominated and confirmed under Trump, helped convince some…
