Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito is one of the cornerstones of the court’s conservative majority.
But that’s now all in doubt.
And Samuel Alito’s secret hospital visit just set off the biggest battle of Trump’s presidency.
As American Patriot Daily reports:
76-year-old Justice Samuel Alito received medical attention after falling ill at an event in his honor.
The Federalist Society hosted an event, “An Examination of the Jurisprudence of Samuel Alito,” at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, during which Alito’s security detail took him to a nearby hospital for treatment.
“Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito was taken to a hospital after becoming ill last month at a Federalist Society dinner in Philadelphia, according to people with knowledge of the March 20 incident.
The patient was evaluated and administered fluids for dehydration. He returned to his home in Virginia that night with his security team,” CNN reported.
President George W. Bush put Alito on the court in 2006, and Alito formed a reliable conservative bloc.
Rumors floated around Washington for months that Alito planned to retire this summer to guarantee a Republican Senate could confirm President Trump’s pick to replace him.
Alito’s creation of a vacancy on the Supreme Court would put enormous pressure on President Trump to nominate a guaranteed 100% conservative justice.
Trump slammed two of his previous picks, Amy Coney Barrett and Neil Gorsuch, for siding against him in a case overturning his “Liberation Day” tariffs.
“The Supreme Court, that’s right, of the United States cost our country — all they needed was a sentence — our country hundreds of billions of dollars, and they couldn’t care less,” Trump declared. “They couldn’t care less.”
“And they sicken me,” Trump said in reference to Gorsuch and Barrett.
“They sicken me because they’re bad for our country,” Trump added of the two justices.
Alito also authored the Dobbs opinion that overturned Roe v. Wade.
A Supreme Court nomination fight could also help Republicans in the midterm election.
In 2018, Republicans flipped Democrat held Senate seats in North Dakota, Florida, and Missouri thanks to the backlash to Christine Blasey Ford’s hoax sexual assault allegations against Brett Kavanaugh during his confirmation hearing.
Republicans gained seats in the Senate despite losing the House of Representatives.
A confirmation fight with Democrats losing their minds and launching a smear campaign against Alito’s replacement could boost Republicans’ chances in key Senate races in Michigan, North Carolina, Maine, Alaska, and Ohio.
Thankfully, the health issue Alito suffered appears to be minor, and he is well on the way to recovery.
But that won’t slow the retirement rumors surrounding Justice Alito as Washington enters the teeth of the 2026 midterm election cycle.
