Volume 392, Number 10144
28 July 2018
WORLD REPORT If confirmed, Kavanaugh could tilt the court toward the president’s views on US public health policy. Susan Jaffe, The Lancet‘s Washington correspondent, reports.
Before Republicans chose Donald Trump as their party’s candidate for president in 
2016, some doubted whether the New York real-estate developer seeking political office for the first time was truly conservative. To shore up his conservative credentials, Trump produced a list of judges with help from the conservative Heritage Foundation and Federalist Society that he promised to choose from to fill a vacancy on the Supreme Court should an opening occur during his presidency....
Health-care issues are expected to dominate the debate over [Judge Brett] Kavanaugh’s nomination in the US Senate, which will decide if he should join the court. Several cases involving the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and reproductive rights are working their way through the legal system. …If Kavanaugh, aged 53 years, is approved, his lifetime position on the court means his vote could be a deciding factor in cases for several decades. [Continued here.]
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