The absence of the recently deceased Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Supreme Court may give the high court’s conservative bloc the upper hand in cases to be heard in the coming term.
President Donald Trump vowed over the weekend to replace the long-serving liberal Ginsburg, a feminist and cultural icon, who died Sept. 18 at 87, with a conservative female justice. If Trump’s nominee is confirmed, there would in theory be six ideological conservatives on the nine-member court, instead of the current five.
