Since the 2016 presidential debates, Donald Trump has made it clear he will nominate judges who are opposed to abortion. He’s kept that promise since taking office, appointing conservative Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh, who are both expected to vote against Roe v. Wade if it comes before the court. But the Republican party’s focus on electing conservatives to the court started decades earlier.
A new FRONTLINE documentary, "Supreme Revenge," follows that history, starting with President Ronald Reagan’s nomination of right-wing judge Robert H. Bork to the Supreme Court, which was ultimately shut down by Senate Democrats, and leading all the way up to today’s challenges to Roe in states like Alabama and Georgia.
Jim Braude was joined by the film’s director and producer, Michael Kirk.
