This weekend, CBS Information journalist Jan Crawford predicted that Trump may have the chance to nominate a fourth justice to the US Supreme Courtroom, this coming 12 months or within the subsequent.
If this occurs, we’ll see one other full-blown meltdown from the left. Nobody who was round for Trump’s first time period will overlook the mood tantrum the left threw over all of Trump’s prior appointments to the court docket.
This can merely solidify the conservative majority on the court docket, making it unattainable for Democrats to legislate from the bench.
Transcript by way of CBS News:
MAJOR GARRETT: Jan, 2025 prediction.
JAN CRAWFORD: I’ll return to the court docket.
I believe that Donald Trump will in all probability get his fourth nomination to the Supreme Courtroom both this 12 months or possibly subsequent 12 months, when…
MAJOR GARRETT: As a result of somebody retires.
Who?
JAN CRAWFORD: Justice Sam Alito.
MAJOR GARRETT: Justice Sam Alito.
JAN CRAWFORD: He was nominated, took the bench in 2006, after practically 20 years on the court docket.
Right here’s the video:
“I believe that Donald Trump will in all probability get his fourth nomination to the Supreme Courtroom,” both in 2025 or 2026, says @JanCBS, predicting Justice Sam Alito will retire. pic.twitter.com/BFhrEaE2Is
— Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) December 29, 2024
Jan Crawford additionally admitted that Democrats have been waging a calculated struggle on the Supreme Courtroom in recent times, which is completely appropriate:
MAJOR GARRETT: Jan, as higher than anybody at this desk, this final 12 months was a conflict of legislation and politics, in contrast to something we’ve seen in our fashionable American historical past.
The judicial system in our nation, in line with Gallup, 35 p.c confidence, 20 p.c beneath our peer nations, different free market democracies. How a lot of that may be a reflection of this conflict, the Supreme Courtroom, or only a sense that our judicial system has turn out to be, within the phrases of somebody we’ve all come to know, two-tiered?
JAN CRAWFORD: You understand, that’s a tough query to reply, as a result of I believe you’ve got a…
MAJOR GARRETT: We at all times provide the best ones, Jan.
(LAUGHTER)
JAN CRAWFORD: However I’m going to attempt, Main, as a result of I believe it goes – you’ve got to look previous simply this previous 12 months and go additional again.
I believe it actually began and took off within the wake of the Dobbs determination, the court docket’s ruling that overturned Roe v. Wade. The outrage over that call was so excessive that you just noticed, I believe, a fairly calculated effort to undermine legitimacy of the Supreme Courtroom by Democrats, Senate Democrats, for instance, hearings, tales about scandals, a few of which had been fairly overblown, to say the least.
If Trump will get to nominate one other justice to SCOTUS, Democrats will solely amplify their assaults on the court docket. Depend on it.
