Bill O'Reilly on Wednesday predicted on Newsmax TV "a bloody brawl" will erupt on Capitol Hill over President Donald Trump's nominee to succeed retiring Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy.
"We're going to have a brawl — I mean, a bloody brawl — in the United States over the next Supreme Court justice," O'Reilly told "The Joe Walsh Show" in an interview.
"No matter who Donald Trump nominates, the Democrats will oppose," he said. "That's going to be some fight coming up."
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O'Reilly said Kennedy's retirement, which he announced Wednesday after more than three decades on the court, was "very big for the United States."
"Anthony Kennedy was a very rational and honest voice on the court, many times siding with the Republican agenda but not in an ideological way."
Trump's nominee will be even more crucial because the nation is so polarized, O'Reilly said.
"Americans should understand that in the future, it's not so much Congress and the president that's going to have the power, it's going to be the nine justices on the Supreme Court.
"Almost everything in this polarized age we live in is going to be challenged in the courts. Everything.
"Every single thing that either a Republican or Democratic president does is going to be challenged in the courts."
Kennedy's retirement, O'Reilly noted, will affect the November midterm elections.
"President Trump and the Republican Party are going to campaign on the economy, North Korea and the victories they've been able to achieve," he told Walsh.
"Now, the message should be, on both sides: 'Hey, if you elect my party, then we'll put in judges who will do what we want.'
"If the Democrats get control, particularly in the Senate, you're going to have liberal judges."
O'Reilly then pointed to liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor's dissent in the court's 5-4 decision upholding Trump's travel ban Tuesday, arguing the president's directive was based on anti-Muslim bias — not on national security concerns.
"She put it in writing," O'Reilly said. "'I don't care what the law says, I think Trump doesn't like Muslims.'
"She put that in writing. So, we're going to have a politicized Supreme Court?
"The midterms now become much more important than they were yesterday."
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