Donald Trump has floated the prospect of reshaping the Supreme Court again, suggesting that some of its most senior conservative justices should step aside because of their age. Amid speculation about the futures of justices Samuel Alito, 76, and Clarence Thomas, 77, Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo asked Trump on Tuesday if he had a shortlist of people to nominate to the bench, should there soon be a vacancy. “I do,” the 79-year-old said, later adding: “It could be two, could be three, could be one. I don’t know—I’m prepared to do it." While praising Alito as one of the “greatest justices of all time,” Trump went on to say that “there’s a theory that if you reach a certain age,” people should retire from the bench to make way for a new appointee with similar political leanings. “You make the case that, at a certain time, you give it up so that you can have a justice (on the same side)… so that your ideology, your policies, your everything, would be of the kind that we like,” Trump said.
Published: April 15, 2026 4:58 pm
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