Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump. , Photo Credit: AP
Former President Donald Trump’s victory in the upcoming US presidential election could keep conservatives in control of the country’s Supreme Court for decades to come.
Conservatives already have a supermajority on the Supreme Court as a result of Mr Trump’s first term.
Justices Clarence Thomas, 76, and Samuel Alito, 74, are the court’s two oldest members. Either, or both, may consider stepping down knowing that Mr. Trump, a Republican, will nominate replacements who may be three decades younger.
“With President Trump and a Republican Senate, we can put a generation of conservative judges on the bench at the Supreme Court,” South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham, the top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, recently wrote on X.
That’s what worries Christina Harvey, executive director of the progressive group Stand Up America. “The real key here is Trump prevention. If Trump wins again, he could solidify right-wing control over the Supreme Court for decades,” Ms. Harvey said.
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Yet the image of the nation’s highest court is worse than in the last two presidential campaigns.
This is despite an early summer ruling on presidential immunity that ensured Mr Trump could not be prosecuted before the election on charges of interference in the 2020 election and other consequential decisions on abortion, guns, affirmative action and the environment. Will have to.
published – October 24, 2024 09:45 AM IST