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.
Establishment Dems (AKA neo-liberals) are conservatives. They are controlled opposition, so obviously they will seat whomever Trump appoints. He could appoint Elon or even Grok, and the conservative Dem leadership will do it.
We need to be voting for progressives if we want progressives. And we need to be calling out establishment Dems and neo-liberals as the vile, subhuman conservatives they are.
The problem is if Alito retires between the election and Republican senators being replaced on January 3, the Senate would rush to confirm his replacement to prevent the potential blocking of Trump’s nominated candidate.
Yep. We’ll never see the Do Nothing Cons work so hard as they will to fuck over the will of the people.