President Trump getting Justice Neil Gorsuch on the Supreme Court to replace the late justice Antonin Scalia ensures that there will be at least four genuinely conservative justices on the court – Gorsuch, John Roberts, Clarence Thomas, and Samuel Alito – but the balance of power on the court generally rests with Justice Anthony Kennedy, whose positions are neither consistently conservative or leftist.
But the shifting balance of the court could be swung powerfully toward conservatism for a generation quite soon if Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley, who chairs the Judiciary committee, is correct: he says that one of the five non-conservative justices will leave the court by summer 2017.
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