• If Trump nominee is confirmed, five of the nine justices on the court will have been appointed by presidents who lost the popular vote.

• Trump’s Supreme Court pick could trigger a crisis of legitimacy for the judiciary.

• A third Trump appointment to the Supreme Court would further turn the highest court in the land into a conservative check on progressive voters, even when they are in the majority.

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