Supreme Court feud just put Trump's plan in jeopardy: legal analyst

A spat between two Supreme Court justices is putting Trump’s plans in jeopardy, a legal expert noted.

Justice Samuel Alito looks poised to stay on as a counterweight to Justice Sonia Sotomayor after their "wacko interaction" spilled out into public view, Michael Popok said during a recent episode of the Unprecedented podcast.

Sotomayor read her "powerful dissent" to Alito's majority opinion on an asylum case, Popok noted.

"So Alito was done reading his summary of his decision, and next up was Sotomayor, and she read big portions of her dissent, and really, I mean, accused the court of being heartless, of comparing it to that famous ship that was turned away by numerous countries filled with Holocaust survivors," Popok explained.

Popok and his guest host, legal analyst Dina Doll, also brought up that Trump is hoping Alito and Justice Clarence Thomas will step down, opening the way for him to add a new conservative justice or two before the midterms.

"Honestly, I thought after that interaction, maybe Alito will not step down this summer because I think he sees himself as this necessary person, probably, to combat Sotomayor right now," Doll said. "It's just the ego in him."

Doll continued, "Somebody like that thinks that they need to be in charge, that nobody else can carry the mantle."