After blue wave, will Alito and Thomas retire from Supreme Court?

The Boston Globe · Kimberly Atkins Stohr · 2026-11-05 16:32 UTC

The midterm results mean a lot for the Supreme Court. But maybe not what you think.

What did Tuesday’s midterm election results have to do with the Supreme Court? In a word: everything.

For starters, the rampant mid-decade gerrymandering that Republicans orchestrated in an effort to hold onto control by diluting the voting power of Black Americans and other Democratic voting blocs could not have happened without the key court rulings that cleared the way for them. In my column this week, I laid out exactly how those efforts backfired on Republicans.

And now that Democrats are set to take control of the Senate, the chamber that vets and approves presidential nominations including federal judicial appointments, President Trump’s ability to keep putting his imprint on the federal judiciary is about to come to a screeching halt.

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