‘MAGA Court Majority’: Former Obama Staffers Terrified Trump Could Potentially Appoint Two More SCOTUS Justices
“If he gets two appointments, that means he will have appointed five Supreme Court Justices, all of whom will be around or below the age of 60 when he leaves office.”
The ‘Obama bros’ who do the ‘Pod Save America’ podcast, are up in arms about the possibility that if Trump wins the 2024 election, he could potentially appoint two more justices to the U.S. Supreme Court.
These guys were basically speech writers for Obama and they think pushing this point about the court could help Democrats in November.
Mediaite reports:
Ex-Obama Official Warns: A Trump Win in 2024 Will Mean FIVE Trump Justices on Supreme Court
A former Barack Obama advisor is warning that a second Donald Trump term in the White House will inevitably lead to a “MAGA court majority” for decades to come.
Pod Save America co-host Dan Pfeiffer raised alarms about another four years of Trump in office and the potential impact on the Supreme Court. In his first term, Trump appointed three judges to the Supreme Court: Neil Gorsuch, Amy Coney Barrett, and Brett Kavanaugh.
In the latest episode of Pod Save America, Pfeiffer argued Democrats should mimic a strategy he said Republicans deployed in 2016 when some were convinced to support Trump in the presidential election due to the significance of a Supreme Court seat being open at the time. Democrats, Pfeiffer said, should “reverse” this strategy and make the Supreme Court as central to their pitch as Republicans did…
“If he gets two appointments, that means he will have appointed five Supreme Court Justices, all of whom will be around or below the age of 60 when he leaves office,” he said. “That is a court majority — a MAGA court majority that will rule for decades.
Watch the clip below:
“Think about the stakes in the Supreme Court. If Donald Trump wins, he will almost certainly get two more appointments…If he has two appointments, that means he will have appointed five Supreme Court justices” —@danpfeiffer on the 2024 election
New pod: https://t.co/ZsnHspYqQw pic.twitter.com/ELjq5Ah2m2
— Pod Save America (@PodSaveAmerica) May 21, 2024
This is one of the reasons why the left is constantly piling on the Supreme Court these days.
Here are a few recent examples.
BREAKING: Prominent Democrats band together to demand that corrupt Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito recuse himself from January 6th cases after it was revealed that he supported MAGA efforts to overturn the election.
The clock is finally ticking on this monster…
Forty-five… pic.twitter.com/EvP6pgSVlP
— Occupy Democrats (@OccupyDemocrats) May 21, 2024
It's never been clearer that we need a binding, enforceable code of conduct for the Supreme Court.
We must pass our Supreme Court Ethics, Recusal, and Transparency Act NOW to ensure the highest court in the land also has the highest ethical standards. Should be a no-brainer.— Senator Chris Van Hollen (@ChrisVanHollen) May 20, 2024
It’s time for a massive overhaul. It’s become what amounts to a politically corrupt trap house for conservative crooks & ideologues on the take. #reformSupremeCourt
Article: Alito’s flag shows the US supreme court is neither honorable nor functional any more.…
— Mark Ruffalo (@MarkRuffalo) May 21, 2024
Trump's Mar-a-Lago trial should've started today, but the judge (whom he appointed) delayed it.
The Jan 6 trial should've been in March, but the Supreme Court's MAGA justices delayed that too.
If Trump was innocent, you'd think he'd want to clear his name before the election.
— Robert Reich (@RBReich) May 20, 2024
And let’s not forget this gem.
Chuck Schumer in 2020: “I want to tell you Kavanaugh, you have released the whirlwind, and you will pay the price. You won't know what hit you."
Then a Democrat tried to assassinate Justice Kavanaugh https://t.co/yT1IFzqjEd pic.twitter.com/MRvLJeVYG3
— Comfortably Smug (@ComfortablySmug) October 29, 2022
It drives the left absolutely insane that they don’t have majority control of the U.S. Supreme Court. If Trump wins in November, they will melt down, but that will be nothing compared to what we will see if Trump gets to appoint another justice.
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Am I the only one NOT seeing a problem here?
If they had let Trump win in 2020, he only would had a chance to replace one justice. Stolen elections have consequences.
Nine conservative justices = No real change, with sane decisions.
Nine leftist justices = US goes into rapid disaster.
The big question is whether we can find a replacement for Thomas. Someone who seems to love the Constitution as much as he does and has the brains to refute so much malarkey from those who hate it does not seem to be in abundance in the legal field.
Answer no, unless they have been incognito
With McTurtle as the Majority Leader, a justice of Thomas’ caliber will not see the light of day. I’d Schumer remains as Majority Leader, same same.
What an odd thing to say, when McConnell bears much of the credit for Trump’s three Supreme Court nominees.
Not really. None of the three justices Trump nominated were of the caliber of Thomas.
That is not to say that they aren’t exceptional. They just don’t hold a candle to Thomas.
Therefore, my comment stands. McTurtle will NEVER EVER permit a nominee like Thomas.
a) McC has already said he wll step down as Leader, though not Senator, at the end of this Congress.
b) it’s up to you tx explain how HW Bush, not known for cracking the whip on the Senate, got Thomas confirmed by a Dem majority Senate, George Mitchell, leader.
“Explanations exist; they have existed for all time; there is always a well-known solution to every human problem—neat, plausible, and wrong.”
—HJ.L. Mencken, “The Divine Afflatus” 1920
Do you suppose Mencken was looking at you when he wrote this.?
Ted Cruz? Mike Lee?
Ted Cruz is a typical Senatorial grandstander. I wouldn’t want him anywhere near the court. I don’t know Mike Lee, but historically, politicians make bad SCOTUS Justices. They tend to evolve to becoming Leftists. Politicians may be “right wing” in office merely because they are pandering to a constituency. Josh Hawley is on Trump’s list, and I think he would also be quite bad. Do not appoint legislators to the Court. Stick with judges who have a record that shows their thought processes on legal and constitutional matters.
“Politicians may be “right wing” in office merely because they are pandering to a constituency.”
E.g., Al Gore started out on lower offices A-rated by the NRA, as did one particular female politician in upstate NY who suddenly turned coat once elected to federal office (can’t remember her name right now, might be Carolyn Maloney).
Hasn’t been a politician elected to office who went on to SCOTUS since O’Connor in 1981 43 years ago. Once example from 43 years ago, with 14 nominations since then is not a strong case. The real objection to Senators going onto the Court is that the GOP margin in the Senate is too thin to stand such a drain.
The two most likely vacancies in the next 4 years must certainly be Thomas and Alito, the two most staunch conservatives on the Court. Even if Trump gets to choose both of their replacements, at most he’ll keep the ideological balance the same. Thomas in particular is an unusually divergent legal thinker, I doubt we’ll see his like again in my lifetime.
Sotomayor could also leave at any time feet first if she doesn’t quit this year.
welllll
a few of todays “conservatives” are tomorrows lefties
I am already planning to vote for him. .you don’t need to keep selling him to me.
This was my primary reason to vote for Trump the first time.
That is to say affirmatively vote for Trump not just against Hillary.
Yes.
I thought Trump was going to turn out to be a liberal with some business sense.
I voted “for” him for two reasons: second, when he promised to choose from this specific list of twenty-odd names when nominating to the empty Supreme Court slot, I figured anyone who goes to such an effort to make a campaign promise crystal clear with no ambiguity actually was planning to KEEP that promise.
First, I trusted that at no point in the next four years would Donald Trump pull off a Scooby Doo mask and reveal himself to have been Hillary Clinton all along.
I didn’t vote for him the first time, because I expected something like that. I expected that if he was elected he would immediately reach out to the Clintons to renew their friendship, and that they would accept, he would bring them into his administration, and govern as they would. And I was right, he did reach out to them, and we were very lucky that they didn’t do the sensible thing; instead they went completely insane and rejected his overtures, thus driving him into the hands of the conservatives. That’s why I did vote for him the second time, and I plan to vote for him again the third time, despite all my reservations.
“That is a court majority — a MAGA court majority that will rule for decades.”
He doesn’t even realize that he said it out loud – That Democrats think that the court’s role is to “rule” rather than guarding our constitution.
Because he understands that the existence of the Bureaucratic State means that SCOTUS acts as a super-legislature and super-executive.
Democrats have always considered the federal courts to be exclusively theirs like some bully kid at the sandbox. When Trump came into office and appointed three justices, and essentially kicked sand in the eye of the Democrat bully, they went crybullying home to mommy wanting “their” sandbox in the public park back.
Ah yes the old if my side is corrupt its fine argument. That good old chestnut
Democrats have been playing that game for decades.
“That good old chestnut”
LOL. Chestnuts for us, chin nuts for you.
Your side *is* corrupt. Just their track record on voting against any sort of ballot security and positive ID is proof enough.
I can usually at least figure out what it is you’re on about, but this time I’m stumped.
Then again, you are someone who has openly claimed that Israel has committed war crimes, which makes you an antisemite f***.
Oh milhouse, redefining words won’t get you anywhere. You being an extremist unwilling to see reality and facts isn’t a good thing. If you were really serious about defending Israel and its war crimes you would have actually pointed out a factual flaw in my position instead of reaching for obvious bullshit immediately.
As for my comment which you can’t work out, isn’t it obvious. The entire article is one big excuse brushing over the fact that Alito is corrupt and biased to a shameful degree.
Israel has not committed any war crimes, and accusing it of them is antisemitic.
And Alito corrupt?! What kind of new nonsense is this? Who has even alleged any corruption against him? Is he supposed to have taken bribes?! Or what? Like him or hate him, there’s never been a breath of scandal about him.
Now if you’d said Thomas was corrupt, you’d be completely wrong, but at least I could understand what you were on about and could answer the allegation with facts. But Alito?! What’s even the allegation?
Why respond to BartE? That’s why he’s here. Ignore him and he’ll go away.
Yes, it does. Imagine claiming that Israel is committing war crimes after the barbaric horror show of October 7!!? Hamas invaded Israel, and frankly, anything they do is justified in my mind, but they are being very humane to the civilian population of Gaza. Something Hamas did not do to innocent Israeli citizens. He’s not worth your time or attention.
They’re doing it wrong. The right way to fear monger is to say Trump will have the Democrat justices arrested and executed so he can appoint their replacements while he twirls his mustache.
Nobody without extreme TDS will believe that. No, they must make it all about Abortion. Gin up fears to the max. Single women are the best Dem voters. They just need to be motivated to actually register and vote. Young women are often not motivated enough to vote, but fear is an excellent motivator.
Dems have far more to worry about that SCOTUS, so many have committed egregious crimes. How many Dem leaders will end up in jail?
Big deal. I am not that impressed with the appointments thar Trump has made. ACB seems to be working on becoming an RBG replacement. Two more like her to replace Thomas and Alito and, with Roberts, the Dems will do just fine.
But there’s nothing particularly unique about Trump’s record there. It’s well known that SCOTUS nominations by a D president have something like a 90% history of staying reliably left, while nominations by an R president have a 50-50 chance of flipping left. This is probably just a real-world consequence of Sturgeon’s Law: 90% of everything is shit.
I know that this frightens them beyond belief, but Biden is in the process of showing that if/when they regain control of the WH, they’ll find workarounds for any decision the court makes that they disagree with.
Or just ignore the court. And the law. And the Constitution.
Concerning the Trump prosecutions, I’ve been saying all along that there’s a hidden agenda. If one of more of prosecutions are tossed by SCOTUS, the Dems will turn lemons into lemonade by decrying the “corrupt” and “politicized” court that overturned one or more Trump convictions. This will increase the pressure to “reform” the court.
In part, this is also why there’s so much bad information concerning the legal nuances of these cases and their processes. The MSM and progressives on social media are stoking their base with biased coverage, making them believe that convictions are in the bag (or in the case of the documents prosecution, that Judge Cannon is in the bag for Trump). When the prosecutions collapse, the consumers of the bad information will fervently believe that justice was denied due to the connivance of conservative judges and SCOTUS justices. The progressives will be all the more motivated to demand “reform.”
They will get a conviction in NY. Judge Merchan is guaranteeing it with his jury instructions.
Which, as I mentioned, will be a boon to them (the Left) if it reaches SCOTUS and SCOTUS tosses the case. Convictions aren’t the only way progressives may benefit from the prosecutions against DJT, although a conviction or two wouldn’t hurt (or at least that’s what the Left believes). This situation has the potential to be a “win-win” for the Dems – convictions (“Yay!”) and their overturning (“We need court reform!”).
Are you seriously trying to defend Judge Cannon. She has been at minimum totally inept from day 1, hence the multiple reversals peior to this case. It’s funny reading your comment becuase really it applies to you.
Jackass Smith had to admit that: a) his staff mishandled the evidence; b) lied to the judge about it; and c) broke the chain of custody of the evidence. Cannon was right about calling for a special master when she did, and she was vindicated by Smith’s staff’s continual f*ck-ups. Following that, we then find out that Walt Nauta was being played against Trump (yes, I know that’s standard prosecutorial procedure) but he was being fed a line of utter bullcrap, and that the FBI was under authorization to use lethal force against the accommodations of a former POTUS. The latter is a serious breach of Secret Service protocols involving those they protect, especially former Presidents and their families. What was the FBI expecting? An armed militia in Mar-a-Lago?
It’s funny that a mental incompetent like you tries arguing anything, Farty.
think about it
the dems main concern is the murder of the fetus
the pro americans main concern is protection of civility
murder /mûr′dər/
noun
The killing of another person without justification or excuse, especially the crime of killing a person with malice aforethought or with recklessness manifesting extreme indifference to the value of human life.
SO ARGUE who cares..those are the facts
fetus /fē′təs/
noun
noun
In humans, the unborn young from the end of the eighth week after conception to the moment of birth, as distinguished from the earlier embryo.
embryo /ĕm′brē-ō″/
noun
The collection of cells that has developed from the fertilized egg of a vertebrate animal, before all the major organs have developed.
so lets agree that even from the left wing definition its the 8th week for a person to be in the womb
now go back to what I state is MOST important to the left and then to the right
you want to abort
go ahead abort
no tax money UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES any payments needed to be funded by soros and allll those who want that procedure ( gop sold us out with the hyde amendment …it never fooled me)
A doubling of the best thing Trump did while in office? Sounds great to me!
That is what a reckoning looks like. Those who called it down upon themselves should fear it.
President Trump thought he might have a chance to replace Sotomayor when he was POTUS last time.
“Her health…not good.”
Diabetes, if I remember correctly.
The flip side of this is that R’s should run on the same issue. Get our voters to turn out on based on hopes/fears of who will be nominating SCOTUS replacements for the next four years.
Even RINO’s of the McConnell stamp would understand the importance of that.
I’d argue that whoever was advising Trump on SCOTUS picks made sure an actual conservative would never get selected. None of Trump’s picks were particularly conservative, certainly not on the level of Thomas. If they were we would have gotten some outstanding 2A rulings that finally put down the judicial revolt against Heller instead of SCOTUS basically refusing to defend it.