Shay Bauman, Southern Utah University
Many people believe in electing a president based on who that president will nominate for the Supreme Court, and what conservative/liberal values that justice will help preserve. What we have noticed is that, throughout time, people's perceptions of what Supreme Court justices will do and what they actually do don't always line up. On a seemingly polarized issue, such as abortion, many times conservative nominated judges vote in favor of abortion and liberally nominated judges often vote against, or, in other words, or are more neutral than most people may think. We have outlined the surrounding news stories and the general populous' perceptions of abortion that surrounded landmark cases on the topic, and then how each justice voted and why.