President Trump remade the Supreme Court into a 6-3 conservative majority in his first term.

Trump may be confronting a Supreme Court crisis in his second term.

And Trump is fearing the worst after receiving this report about Clarence Thomas.

The two oldest justices on the Supreme Court are 78-year-old Clarence Thomas and 76-year-old Samuel Alito.

Thomas and Aito also happen to be the court’s two conservative stalwarts.

And rumors are flying around Washington that one, or potentially both, could retire this year to ensure a Republican Senate could confirm their successor.

Fox News Channel’s Maria Bartiromo asked President Trump if he was preparing a shortlist of nominees should Alito or Thomas retire.

Trump confirmed that it was the case

“It could be two, could be three, could be one. I don’t know — I’m prepared to do it,” Trump replied.

Justice Alito, who authored the decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, is the most likely to retire, and President Trump singled him out for praise.

“Justice Alito is an unbelievable justice and a brilliant justice, and he gets the country,” Trump declared. “He does what’s right for the country.”

Justice Thomas reportedly wants to stay on the court for two more years to set the record for longest-serving justice.

But Democrats could control the White House and/or the Senate after the 2026 and 2028 elections.

President Trump pointed to liberal Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg not retiring when Barack Obama was President, and Democrats controlled the Senate, which allowed Trump to nominate her successor when she passed away in 2020,  as a cautionary tale of why Supreme Court Justices shouldn’t risk staying on the bench past when they know their party controls the ability to nominate and confirm their replacement.

“She decided that she was going to live forever, and about two minutes after the election, she went out, and I got to appoint somebody,” Trump stated. “So, you know, you make the case that at a certain time you give it up … so that your ideology, your policies, your everything, would be of the kind that we like.”

After Trump’s interview, Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) confirmed that the Senate would act to confirm a Supreme Court nominee ahead oft he election should a vacancy arise.

“That’s a contingency, I think, that you always have to be prepared for. And if that were to happen, yes, we would be prepared to confirm,” Thune said to reporters.

A Supreme Court confirmation fight could also boost Republican chances in the midterm election.

Republicans gained two Senate seats in 2018 despite the midterms being an otherwise blue wave election in backlash to Democrats trying to destroy Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court confirmation chances by smearing him with false allegations of sexual assault.

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