Barrett, 48, has a record and approach to the law that puts her to the far right of the 65-year-old Roberts. "I think this will end up at the Supreme Court," he said last month of the presidential contest. The court had been grappling with the state GOP's emergency request to block the Pennsylvania Supreme Court decision for two weeks. All of those Roberts' opinions drew Republican wrath, and Monday night's action leaving in place a Pennsylvania Supreme Court decision was no different. The Barrett effectConfounding predictions of the Roberts Court role in any major lawsuit arising from the current presidential election would be a new Justice Barrett.

Source: CNN October 20, 2020 13:18 UTC