The GOP has been predicted to sweep both the House and the Senate come November, but now the party risks backlash over restricting abortions nationwide.
"I don't think Justice Samuel Alito could be persuaded to change anything. He's got the votes. Unless Chief Justice John Roberts can convince him to soften something" said Carol Sanger, the Barbara Aronstein Black Professor of Law at Columbia Law School.
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