Michael A. Fragoso

Now, it could be many years before the GOP regains simultaneous control of the White House and the Senate.

Michael Fragoso, a former chief counsel to Senator Mitch McConnell, Republican of Kentucky, said Alito would have been more likely than Thomas to weigh the political risks of remaining in the court.

Whether he regrets it or should regret it, he made a choice and now he's going to be there for the next 10 years, Ferguson said.

Some legal observers have floated a last-ditch scenario in which Thomas or Alito could announce their retirement in the coming days and give Trump and the outgoing Republican Senate a chance to quickly install a successor before the newly elected Congress is seated on January 3rd.

On the record.

On the question of legality, though, there was a column that was written in the Wall Street Journal over the summer by Mike Fragoso.

Yeah.

And Sean Cooksey.