# Democratic midterm rout fuels Republican unease over Supreme Court’s future

https://mins.news/en/item/129986

- CNN, 2026-11-05 02:31 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.cnn.com/2026/11/04/politics/alito-thomas-supreme-court-republican-anxiety?Date=20261105&Profile=CNN

> The Democrats’ sweeping midterm victory immediately unsettled the right over the Supreme Court’s future and revived Republican worries that Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas would stay on rather than retire.

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