President Donald Trump has apparently defied reported calls from within his own party to consider reshuffling the nation’s highest court ahead of a vicious battle for control of the legislature next year.

In a sit-down with Politico released Tuesday, the president was asked if either of the Supreme Court’s aging conservative justices, Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas, should consider retiring before the 2026 midterm elections.

“I hope they stay because I think they’re fantastic. Both of those men are fantastic,” Trump told the outlet.

His comments come amid reports that senior figures in the MAGA movement have expressed alarm at the prospect of losing the overwhelming conservative majority in the nation’s highest court if either Alito, 75, or Thomas, 77, or both, decide to retire after

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