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NBC News is fretting over the possibility of former President Donald Trump adding more “conservative” justices to the Supreme Court if he prevails in November.

While the network’s election engineering names Justices Clarence Thomas, 76, and Samuel Alito, 74, as possibly retiring, the fearmongering downplays the fact that potential Trump nominees would not further alter the balance of the court in that case.

“Republicans expect to confirm even more Supreme Court justices if Trump wins,” blares the NBC News headline.

“During Donald Trump’s White House tenure, Republicans assembled the most conservative Supreme Court in a century. Now, they’re excited about the prospect of building on those efforts by confirming even more conservative justices, as well as lower-court judges, if he wins another four years,” the article reads.

Sens. Josh Hawley (R-MO) and John Cornyn (R-TX) are quoted commenting on the likelihood that the GOP will control the Senate and the confirmation process if Trump wins.

“High — extremely high to certain,” Hawley said. “I think you’ll see, on the conservative side, at least one retirement. I’m speculating, but I’m fairly confident of that.”

Cornyn, who is running to replace Mitch McConnell as the next Senate GOP leader, expects Trump to follow the same process used during his first term to select judicial nominees.

“I would think so,” he said. “Obviously he worked with the Federal Society and other conservative legal organizations to come up with the best people, and I thought he did an outstanding job with the Supreme Court.”

NBC News warned that Trump “will have appointed over half the court” if he gets two more nominees in, noting that the last time that happened was under Franklin D. Roosevelt.

“I don’t think any other president’s done that. That would be unprecedented,” Cornyn said. “The three we’ve confirmed has been a legacy, one of the best things the administration and President Trump did with a Republican majority. Five almost seems too much to hope for.”

“That could happen with Trump. It could. That would be big,” Hawley added.

Where NBC News may fret, social media users seemed to revel… here’s a quick sampling of responses to the story, as seen on X:

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