by Jorge Gomez • 5 minutes
There are no vacancies on the U.S. Supreme Court at the moment, and therefore no nominee pending. But radical groups are ready to pour in millions of dollars to block anyone nominated to the Court by President Trump.
Demand Justice put out a statement last week announcing the “launch of a $3 million campaign to oppose an anticipated Trump Supreme Court nomination this year—before a nominee is even named.”
“The campaign will aggressively make the case by tying any nominee directly to Trump’s corrupt agenda,” the statement read, “and ensuring that Senate Republicans in competitive states, and Senate Republicans with a legacy to protect, pay a political price for rubber-stamping a personal loyalist to a lifetime appointment.”
$3 million is just the start. According to the organization, they’ll “scale up to a $15 million campaign when the vacancy is announced.”
“If Trump is handed another Supreme Court vacancy, we must be clear-eyed and ready to make it an uphill battle,” said Ezra Levin, a co-executive director of Indivisible, a group partnering with Demand Justice. “This will be a defining political battle, and we intend to make sure the stakes are clear to everyone.”
Former Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris quickly took to social media to back the plan.
“We must be clear eyed about what is at stake with the Supreme Court right now,” Harris posted on X. “We cannot allow Donald Trump to hand pick one, if not two, additional justices. The nation’s highest court must be stopped from becoming even more beholden to him.”
We must be clear eyed about what is at stake with the Supreme Court right now. We cannot allow Donald Trump to hand pick one, if not two, additional justices. The nation’s highest court must be stopped from becoming even more beholden to him.https://t.co/RF8GJYwptz
— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) April 3, 2026
Pundits and analysts speculate that there could be a vacancy coming soon, and possibly even two. Associate Justice Samuel Alito—who turned 76 on April 1—was briefly hospitalized last month, fueling rumors he could hang up his robe in the near future. A statement from the Supreme Court Public Information Office clarified the hospitalization was “out of an abundance of caution” at the recommendation of Alito’s security team.
Others say Justice Clarence Thomas could also step down, having served since 1991 and being the oldest justice currently on the Court. At this point, neither justice has given any public indication they’ll depart.
Nonetheless, Demand Justice’s “pre-emptive” campaign highlights the urgency of what at stake in our country right now, especially at the U.S. Supreme Court.
First, Americans should take note that the radical Supreme Court Coup is still lurking.
Blocking a Supreme Court nominee appears more like a short-term strategy for judicial activists. Because if you know anything about Demand Justice, you’ll know this is really about a broader scheme to radically reform the Supreme Court in favor of the Left, especially if there’s a power shift in who controls the presidency and Senate after the 2028 Election.
“This is a clear-eyed, remorseless strategy on the left to remove an obstacle to an equally radical agenda,” explains law professor and attorney Jonathan Turley.
“Harris reportedly supports court packing and could use radical groups like Demand Justice to push through an expansion of the court to produce an immediate liberal majority if Democrats take power,” he added.
For the past few years, court “reform” advocates like Demand Justice have put forward proposals that would destroy judicial independence and the constitutional order. They poured millions of dollars trying to convince the public that these “reforms” would “fix” the Supreme Court.
Those include court-packing, ending life tenure for federal judges and giving Congress the power to oversee the Court’s ethics code. Some proposals would prevent the Court from hearing certain cases, effectively destroying the Court’s power of judicial review.
They also launched a wave of attacks against the Court’s conservative justices. They levied fabricated accusations, supposed “ethics” scandals aimed at smearing the credibility of the justices so they can also undermine the authority of the Court’s rulings.
Radical “court reform” is not likely to happen soon. The prospect that court-packing or other “reform” legislation passes is slim to none. But the Far Left hasn’t stopped pushing for it. they’ve simply changed strategy and are laying the groundwork to bring back the Supreme Court Coup should they regain political power.
Additionally, it looks like it’ll be a real dog fight to get the next Supreme Court justice confirmed, given the millions of dollars opponents are ready to pour in. And it’ll be even more intense if that vacancy happens before the November midterm elections.
On paper, The President and his party should be able to get their nominee through. They have a 53-person majority in the Senate, giving them the simple majority needed to get a nomination confirmed.
But it’s not just about having the numbers and lining up the votes. It’s about both quantity and quality. In other words, the administration is going to have nominate someone who—as the saying goes—“checks all the boxes.”
And if there’s one box that the next nominee must check off, it’s the one on religious liberty.
Whomever the President picks, he needs to make sure it’s someone with a proven record of defending America’s First Freedom. We need a rock-ribbed, principled jurist who will decide cases based on the original text and meaning of the Constitution.
Over the past eight years, the Supreme Court has issued several opinions protecting religious liberty and other issues of major importance to people of faith, including life and free speech.
On religious freedom, we’re witnessing perhaps the most significant shift in the law in more than 50 years. Of the 11 victories that First Liberty has had at the Supreme Court since 2018, several have been landmark rulings that overturned decades of bad precedent and put new ones in place that will safeguard the free exercise of religion for generations.
These results were dramatically affected by the makeup of the Court, especially by the three justices added under the first Trump administration.
We can’t emphasize enough the importance of having justices on the Court who will rule according to principle—namely, the principle that the Constitution and our nation’s laws should be interpreted and applied as written. There’s no question about it. If the highest court can get another justice who’s solid on religious freedom, there’s tremendous hope for the future of all our freedoms.
First Liberty is ready to take action if a Supreme Court vacancy occurs.
Through our Judicial Legacy Project, we’re already providing the administration and Senate leaders with trusted information on judicial nominations. A Supreme Court vacancy will be no exception to our efforts. We’re ready on our end to launch a full-scale campaign and continue being a trusted resource for leaders and decision makers in our nation’s capital.
And the same goes if radical court “reform” resurfaces. First Liberty is actively working to counter any future attempts to destroy our judicial system. Our team is working with the top scholars, professors and legal minds to ensure that more Americans learn about the dangers of court-packing and other schemes. We’ll continue doing everything we can to protect the integrity of the courts and judicial independence.
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