Trump will name more conservative judges. He may even pick a majority of the Supreme Court.

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

71% : If Trump gets two appointments, he would be the first president since Franklin D. Roosevelt to have appointed a majority of justices to the court, a milestone he could reach as soon as the summer of 2026 depending on the timing of retirements.
64% : "The top candidates to become the next Senate majority leader -- John Thune, R-S.D., and John Cornyn, R-Texas -- both plan to prioritize confirming judges under Trump.
61% : Trump made the Supreme Court and lower courts priorities in his first term.
55% : Once Trump takes office, he will probably be able to fill most of those slots.
54% : Trump appointed all of them to their current positions.
50% : "If Thomas or Alito steps down, Trump is likely to look to the dozens of appeals court judges he appointed in his first term to find candidates to replace them, some experts believe.
42% : His appointees have been substantially more diverse than Trump's, and he has also picked some with experience as public defenders or civil rights lawyers.
40% : Both are conservative stalwarts who are in some ways more aligned with the Trump wing of the GOP than the three justices Trump appointed in his first term.
40% : "I certainly expect there will be a vacancy, quite possibly two," said John Malcolm, a lawyer at the conservative, Trump-allied Heritage Foundation who was among those who helped compile a list of potential high court nominees for Trump when he first ran in 2016.
39% : Ahead of the election, numerous Republican senators on the Judiciary Committee told NBC News they expected at least one, if not more, Supreme Court retirements should Trump prevail and their party win the Senate.
37% : Having already picked three Supreme Court justices in his first term -- who were critical in overturning abortion rights -- Trump will have appointed a majority of the court if he lands two more.
37% : Trump already transformed the federal courts in his first term, appointing 54 appeals court judges and 174 district court judges, many of whom are closely linked with the Federalist Society, a conservative legal group.
35% : "Sonia Sotomayor needs to retire right now," a Democratic official working in the Biden administration said within hours of NBC News' projecting that Trump had won the presidency.
35% : Unlike in 2016, Trump hasn't issued a public list of potential Supreme Court nominees.
32% : To what extent Trump will follow the road map from his first term, in which he deferred to conservative lawyers like McGahn and legal activist Leonard Leo on judicial appointments, remains to be seen.

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