Trump’s revenge: tilting of supreme court to the right poised to bear fruit

Cases on voting rights, abortion and gun control will be a test of the ex-president's laser-like focus on reshaping the judiciary

Donald Trump's presidency was capricious and chaotic, but there was one issue on which he focused with laser-like discipline: tilting the judiciary to the right.

Now America is about to reap that harvest. In the next year the supreme court is set to consider healthcare, voting, LGBTQ rights, guns and, most explosively, abortion. The cases provide a vivid demonstration of how, after being rejected at the ballot box, conservative partisans could push their agenda through the courts instead.