Alito, 76, is one of six conservative justices on the nine-person Supreme Court
The Supreme Court’s 6-3 conservative lean wouldn’t change if Alito retired and Trump nominated a new justice. But Alito’s retirement would allow Trump to appoint a fourth justice to the court. Alito was nominated by then-President George W. Bush in the fall of 2005 and took his seat on the bench in January 2006.
Trump has lashed out at the Supreme Court for several rulings against him on controversial issues like his sweeping tariff policy and his challenge to birthright citizenship. Alito sided with Trump on those two issues.
The timing of a Supreme Court justice’s retirement is crucial because the party in power can change the court’s political leaning for decades.
If the democrats take the senate back it would be rather funny to see an appointment locked out “until the people can have a say”
Lol, as if congressional Democrats would ever actually do something.
He’s just waiting to see how the midterms play out. Pretty much guarantee he’ll retire if the Dems gain a bunch of seats.
Roll the dice. They don’t get more loathsome than Alito. Pardon me, for a moment I forgot that Thomas exists. Fuck it, roll the dice anyway. Maybe we get a non-lizard-person by accident.
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Can you imagine if Trump nominated himself to the supreme court?
I’m sympathetic to the idea that we don’t need a “Supreme Court” at all. We have a representative legislature, we have federal judges. All these fucking assholes do is distort the constitution to serve an aristocracy that is not unlike the aristocracy we fought a revolution to overthrow. They’re goddamn traitors.
It’s pretty trivial to cut the Supreme Court out of the loop. All you have to do is write into the language of a law that ruling on this law is outside the jurisdiction of SCOTUS. SCOTUS has original jurisdiction on a few issues, like issues involving disputes between states. But most of what it rules on are it’s jurisdiction simply because Congress hasn’t assigned the issue to any other court.
It’s almost as if there’s some coordination going on, avoiding the issue altogether!
Dropping news like this seems akin to “don’t announce close to an election where it could potentially impact election”
… or am I incorrect, here?
Lol. Better do it in the next week, buddy.
The cons are great at ramming through people in record time when they need to. See Amy Coney Barrett…
Which unqualified idiot will Trump appoint? Remember that there are actually no official qualifications to being a Supreme Court Judge. It doesn’t actually have to be a judge, it can be literally anybody. Musk? Don Jr? David Ellison? Zuckerberg? One of the Cornell rapists?
Supreme Court appointments? Congress? Constitution?
These silly games yall want to play are so outdated.
