One thing I think too few people are factoring into their handicapping of the 2020 presidential election is the impact of Supreme Court decisions that come down between now and then. With the announcement that the Court will be revisiting the constitutionality of a particularly restrictive abortion law, there is the potential for a lot votes to move.

The Supreme Court will review a restrictive Louisiana law that gives the justices the chance to reconsider a recent ruling protecting abortion rights.

The court said Friday it would consider whether the 2014 law requiring doctors at abortion clinics to have admitting privileges at nearby hospitals unduly burdens women’s access to abortion…

The law is almost identical to a Texas law that the Supreme Court struck down in 2016. But in that case, now retired justice Anthony M. Kennedy joined the court’s four liberals to form a majority. Since then, President Trump has added two new justices who were enthusiastically supported by antiabortion groups.

I’ve always felt that abortion is an issue that mobilizes the right more than the left because few people get excited about existing law or protecting the status quo. But, for the same reason, if the Supreme Court ever really moves to restrict access to abortion, I think it will be the left that is galvanized.

In truth, there are a lot of people who are not engaged politically today but who will become activated if they wake up one morning and discover that abortion is suddenly unavailable in their state. The ruling in this case could have that effect in more than a few states in our country. In fact, it would be shocking and totally disillusioning to the right if the newly conservative Supreme Court doesn’t fulfill their dreams and substantially uphold the Louisiana law. I’d also be surprised if their revisionism ends there.

And it’s not just abortion law that stands to get upended between now and Election Day in 2020. There will be rulings on issues as varied as hiring discrimination against LGBTQ applicants, banishing the insanity defense, juvenile life sentences, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), making it essentially legal for border enforcement to shoot people on the Mexican side of the border, and stripping the District of Columbia and all our territories (like Puerto Rico and Guam) of the right to choose their own leaders.

Each of these cases will probably result in appalling outcomes that shock the conscience of the broad political middle of the country. In most cases, they will mobilize more people to vote for the Democratic presidential candidate than the Republican one.