‘They set a torch to it’: Warren says court lost legitimacy with Roe reversal

Top Democrats again call for appointing additional justices to blunt conservative super-majority which made ruling possible

Leading Democrats on Sunday continued calling the supreme court's legitimacy into question after it took away the nationwide right to abortion last week, and some again lobbied for appointing additional justices to the panel so as to blunt the conservative super-majority which made the controversial ruling possible.

The Massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren suggested to ABC's This Week that there was urgency to do that because supreme court justice Clarence Thomas indicated within Friday's decision to overturn the landmark Roe v Wade ruling that he's open to reconsidering precedents guaranteeing contraception, same-sex marriage rights and consensual gay sex.