Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis expanded upon his vision for a Christofascist America to a crowd of evangelical broadcasters Monday, promising that the Supreme Court will be captured forever on his watch. He’ll have the opportunity, he told the crowd, to appoint as many as four justices—one more than Donald Trump! Because out-Trumping Trump is his main hope in securing the 2024 Republican nomination.
While DeSantis explained that he holds Clarence Thomas up as his model justice, he’ll have to go—as will Justice Samuel Alito, DeSantis suggested. He’s also gunning for Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Sonia Sotomayor. They’ll all be gone before the end of his eight years in office, the other promise he made to the crowd. Trump would have just four more years, DeSantis insinuated, but he’ll have two terms.
“I think if you look over the next two presidential terms, there is a good chance that you could be called upon to seek replacements for Justice Clarence Thomas and Justice Samuel Alito and the issue with that is, you can’t really do better than those two,” DeSantis told the religious broadcasters. “[I]f you replace a Clarence Thomas with somebody like a Roberts or somebody like that, then you’re gonna actually see the court move to the left, and you can’t do that.”