Trump's Influence Over The Supreme Court Is Just Beginning. Next The Conservative Majority Could Upend Elections With An 'extrao

A Fair Maps Rally in front of the US Supreme Court on March 26, 2019.Sarah L. Voisin/The Washington Post via Getty Images The Supreme Court's conservative supermajority has massively reshaped American society and law. The court could upend American democracy in a crucial election case it's taking up next term. "It would be an extraordinary power grab by political actors were it to be upheld," one expert says. The US Supreme Court over the past few weeks has massively reshaped American society with a flurry of opinions that, among other things, ended five decades of federal protections for abortion rights, curtailed gun restrictions, and limited the federal government's regulatory power.The court's rulings this term demonstrate, more clearly than ever, the real-world consequences of former President Donald Trump's influence in cementing a conservative supermajority on the Supreme Court.And the court's Trump-shaped supermajority is just getting started.Next term, it has the opportunity to blow up over 100 years of election jurisprudence by embracing a radical legal theory that would concentrate power over elections to increasingly polarized and gerrymandered state legislatures.