CNN: From champagne to speeches, would-be Trump Supreme Court justices draw conservative buzz
This excerpt is from a piece that originally ran on November 21, 2024.
Early jockeying underscores the potential significance of a second Trump term on the federal judiciary, and the Supreme Court specifically. If Trump is able to name one or two younger justices in a second term, it would lock in for decades the conservative supermajority he built in his first term.
“Some of the judges Trump put on the courts of appeals … have been openly campaigning for the Supreme Court,” said Jake Faleschini, justice program director at the liberal Alliance for Justice.
“This is not the sort of thing we’ve seen consistently in the past,” Faleschini said, noting that past potential candidates sought to limit public stances to avoid giving critics something to use against them at confirmation hearings. “We’re in a different world.”