Their replacements will be even worse
President Biden on Saturday night said he expects the winner of this year’s presidential election will likely have the chance to fill two vacancies on the Supreme Court – a decision he warned would be “one of the scariest parts” if his Republican opponent, former President Donald Trump, is successful in his bid for a second term.
Biden made the remarks at a fundraiser that his campaign said raised a record $28 million. The event featured Hollywood stars like George Clooney and Julia Roberts, as well as former President Barack Obama.
Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel moderated a conversation with Biden and Obama, and the two presidents talked about the impact that Trump had on issues like abortion rights by naming conservative justices to the Supreme Court.
“The next president is likely to have two new Supreme Court nominees. Two more. He’s already appointed two that have been very negative in terms of rights of individuals,” Biden said. Trump named three justices during his term – Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanagh and Amy Coney Barrett – cementing the conservative majority on the bench.
Biden, who flew to Los Angeles on the heels of attending the G7 summit in Italy, did not expand upon how the two vacancies on the court would come about.
I can expand on it. If Trump wins and they take the senate Thomas and Alito will happily retire. Thomas will make some real big bucks on wingnut welfare and Alito will openly embrace his fascist activism. Trump will replace them with young fascist jurists handpicked by Leonard Leo and they will rule the court for another generation.
Martha-Ann Alito made that pretty clear when she told Lauren Windsor that she told her husband that when he is “free of this nonsense” she plans to let her freak flags fly and nonsensically mentioned a five year statute of limitations on defamation. It sure sounds like she doesn’t think he’s going to be on the court all that much longer.
Until this court is re-balanced there will be no more progress. The only thing we can hope for is to keep a majority in the congress and hold the presidency to offset their worst impulses. Letting Trump put two young Nazis on it to replace the two old wingnuts would be a tragedy.
Here’s a list of possible replacements put together by Fox news. Oh. My. God.