This did not make him popular with the more conservative wing of the party.
The President's relationship with the conservative wing of his party, always strained, was now broken.
"Even if it might mean some protest from the conservative wing against a woman priest?"
Adams has long been active in her party's conservative wing.
His election saw the conservative wing of the party gain control.
All the votes against the bill were cast by Republicans, most of them from the party's conservative wing.
In the next three years, after the rise of the court's conservative wing, their success rate dropped to 17 percent.
The organization's expansion also comes as the party's conservative wing is going through a transition.
He has since strayed from the conservative wing on several issues.
The move has raised concern in the party's conservative wing.