How many Supreme Court Justices will be appointed by Trump in his second term?

It will be two. Thomas likely steps down in '25 and Alito in '26.

Roberts will not step down as he does not want to give the appearance of ensuring the SCOTUS is going to be dominated by Trump appointees for the next 20 years and will hold off retiring until the next POTUS. I would be willing to bet if you gave him truth serum, he would say he hopes a D wins in '28 and can replace him with a liberal in order for Democrats to retain the hope of retaking the court in the future, that way the give up on the insane court packing idea.

I think Sotomayor will be fine and easily make it to '29.

 

Qualified ones? Zero.

 

At least two. Alito and Thomas .Anymore will depend on health issues and I won’t /don’t wish that on anyone.

 

The same president appointing 6 USSC justices would be a serious disaster. Especially when that president believes everyone he appoints should be loyal to him.

 

That's the goal. Judicial backstop, both houses of congress, and no one to check Trump's power. Add in project 2025 and... good times!

 

So now that the Federalist Society controls our judicial branch, is the system of checks and balances totally destroyed?

 

But they aren’t “loyal” to him.

They are good justices.

 

If only we had a system that forced bipartisan judicial picks… like the filibuster for example.

Oh wait, Democrats killed that to let Obama ram whatever judges he wanted into the judiciary.

You’re not angry that SCOTUS is slanted in one direction. You’re angry that it’s slanted to the right. If Democrats were President the last 10 years and they had a 7-2 majority right now, you’d be talking about how democracy has spoken.

Democrats built the conditions where this sort of thing can happen, now they’re crying that it burned them. As far as I’m concerned, they can cry harder.

 

Classic Democrats,

Either they control the institutions or they want to destroy them by pretending they are already destroyed.

 

Better if they aren’t whatever loyal means to President Trump, but we still likely have a narrowing of viewpoint if he is selecting based on perceived loyalty. One of the main principles of our constitutional system is that majorities not be permitted to invade the rights of the rest of the citizens. This is achieved because the system usually requires that coalitions be built across factions in order to take action. The fewer the number of factions that are spread across the branches of government, the more likely that action can be taken without the need to build coalitions.

 

Cant be....Remember when people were screaming his court would keep him in power (but they shot him down at every turn)?

This is mostly about abortion to the left. (You know the huge issue that would hand the democrats the Whitehouse and congress?)

The court just Isn't liberal and that makes people angry.

 

Indeed it is a problem worth consideration. Here’s Madison from Federalist 10:

No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause because his interest would certainly bias his judgment, and, not improbably, corrupt his integrity. With equal, nay with greater reason, a body of men are unfit to be both judges and parties at the same time; yet what are many of the most important acts of legislation but so many judicial determinations, not indeed concerning the rights of single persons, but concerning the rights of large bodies of citizens? And what are the different classes of legislators but advocates and parties to the causes which they determine? Is a law proposed concerning private debts? It is a question to which the creditors are parties on one side and the debtors on the other. Justice ought to hold the balance between them. Yet the parties are, and must be, themselves the judges; and the most numerous party, or in other words, the most powerful faction must be expected to prevail. ​

 

Many other principles besides abortion...Chevron doctrine for example

 

I would add that it's not just the Judicial branch, it's also the legislative branch. If Senate Republicans were as subservient to Richard Nixon as they are to Donald Trump Richard Nixon would have served his full second term. Even though he may have been impeached by the House he would have never been convicted by the Senate.

 

No checks and balances, no democracy where the rights of the minority is protected. Not digging it

 

I know. But that is the single issue people here swore would flip the political tide and it did jot.

And they also shot him down on the 2020 election stuff. Which many claimed they would not.

 

Economy controlled the election. That and Kamala unrelatable personality. People unhappy with Roe but it isn't touching them personally. Rent and groceries are

 

I've been saying.it since Dobbs went down.