Dan Pfeiffer, an adviser to former President Barack Obama, warned Tuesday that the U.S. Supreme Court could become a “MAGA majority” if former President Trump is re-elected in November.
Pfeiffer predicted it was “almost certain” that President Trump would appoint two more Supreme Court justices to join the three he has already appointed during his first term – Neil Gorsuch, Amy Coney Barrett and Brett Kavanaugh.
“By the end of Trump’s second term — if he had won — [Justice Clarence] Thomas is 82 years old. [Justice Samuel] “Mr. Alito is 78 years old,” Pfeiffer said on a recent episode of “Pod Save America.”
He added that Thomas and Alito “will definitely retire,” noting that Justice Sonia Sotomayor, an Obama appointee, will be 72 years old by the end of the next presidential administration.
“If he is appointed twice, he will have appointed five Supreme Court justices, all of whom will be around 60 years old or younger when they retire,” he said. “This is a MAGA court majority that will govern for decades,” he said, referring to President Trump’s “Make America Great Again” political movement.
“No matter how many presidential elections he wins in the future, unless something special happens, Trump’s fingerprints will be on the Supreme Court,” Pfeiffer added.
The other justices to preside over the Supreme Court are Chief Justice John Roberts, appointed by former President George W. Bush, Elena Kagan, appointed by President Obama, and Ketanji Brown Jackson, recently appointed by President Biden. be.
Pfeiffer argued that Democrats should emulate the strategy Republicans used in the 2016 election. In the election, the death of Justice Antonin Scalia before the election left a vacant Supreme Court seat, prompting some reluctant Republican voters to vote for Trump.
“I think we should make this a big issue, and we know this will work,” he said, later adding, “Republicans who didn’t like President Trump didn’t hold back at the last minute.” “I tried to vote for President Trump on the Supreme Court. So I think we can reverse that,” he said.
Hill has reached out to the Trump campaign for comment.
Recent polls show the race between Trump and Biden is close, with the former president leading the incumbent by 1 percentage point, according to The Hill/Decision Desk’s polling index.
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