Abstract
In 2016, Donald John Trump was elected President of the United States, and in the same election, the Republican Party obtained a majority in the Senate, which enabled Trump to appoint three Supreme Court justices, resulting in significant changes in the Court’s jurisprudence regarding abortion, affirmative action, and administrative regulations. These events have sparked debates on the need to reform the Supreme Court’s judicial selection system. The aim of this study is to identify the most relevant jurisprudential changes arising from the justices appointed during Trump’s first term, as well as to analyze proposed reforms to modify the process for selecting Supreme Court justices in the United States.
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