President Donald Trump made a prediction in an interview broadcast Wednesday about the potential for him to nominate more justices to the Supreme Court, should seats become vacant during his tenure.
“So you don’t know if you’re going to be putting another nomination forward,” Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo stated.
“I don’t know. It’s possible, you know. In theory, it’s two or three, they tell me,” Trump said. “If you just read statistics, it could be two, could be three, could be one. I don’t know.”
Trump’s nominees from his first term already make up three of the nine justices on the Supreme Court, the most of any president in the 21st century.
As the midterm elections draw nearer, rumors have swirled about the possible retirement of Justice Samuel Alito while Republicans are still in control of the Senate, to ensure a conservative fills the vacancy.
