By Brett Rowland | center square
(meaningful news) – President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he is “ready” to nominate another Supreme Court justice to the bench if a vacancy arises.
Neither judge has publicly announced plans to step down. However, speculation continues about Justice Samuel Alito, 76, who was hospitalized in March.
Trump said he has a short list of nominees ready to go, but it is not certain whether there will be any changes to the court’s nine members before the end of the year.
“I don’t know,” the president told Fox Business’ Maria Bartiromo in an interview that aired Wednesday. “Justice Alito is in excellent physical health, as you mentioned his name.”
Trump said Democrats made a mistake with Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
“You make the case at a certain point that you give it up so you can get justice… (with your ideology, your policies)… but it’s probably not easy for people to give up. Ginsburg couldn’t do that.”
Trump said that, theoretically, he could have three more options before his term ends.
“It could be two, it could be three, it could be one. I don’t know, I’m willing to do it,” Trump said.
Trump praised Alito’s leadership on the court.
Trump appointed three justices in his first term: Neil Gorsuch in 2017, Brett Kavanaugh in 2018, and Amy Coney Barrett in 2020 after Ginsburg’s death. Ginsburg died 46 days before the November 2020 election, which was won by President Joe Biden.
The Supreme Court currently has a 6-3 conservative majority, but as Trump has repeatedly noted, they don’t always vote together on major issues.
Trump was disappointed with the High Court’s decision in the tariff case. In February, a divided court found that the president overstepped his authority by imposing billions of dollars of tariffs.
Conservative Justices Barrett and Gorsuch joined Chief Justice John Roberts in the majority opinion, along with liberal Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Kentazie Brown Jackson. Justices Clarence Thomas, Kavanaugh and Alito dissented.
After that decision, Trump publicly ridiculed Gorsuch and Coney Barrett.
“Two of the people who voted for this, I appointed, and they make me sick,” Trump said. “They make me sick because they’re bad for our country.”
Hours after the high court’s tariff ruling, Trump imposed a 10% global entry tariff, which has been challenged by states and small businesses.
Trump has also publicly expressed displeasure over how the Supreme Court will rule on a case related to his executive order on birthright citizenship.
On the first day of his second term, Trump signed an order denying citizenship to children born in the US unless the parents are US citizens or green card holders. Several states challenged the order and four federal judges have blocked it.
The Supreme Court heard oral arguments in that case on April 1. The decision is expected by summer and could have a significant impact on US immigration.
Reprinted with permission from Center Square.
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