Trump may be able to preemptively nominate and confirm SCOTUS Justices

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OLC has also determined that “prospective appointments are permissible for vacancies anticipated to occur during the appointing official’s own term of office.” Indeed, since 1986, 12 people have been appointed prospectively to the Supreme Court: Chief Justices William Rehnquist and John Roberts and Associate Justices Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, Samuel Alito, Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, Brett Kavanaugh, and Ketanji Brown Jackson, and failed nominee Harriet Miers. To put it another way, 12 people have been appointed by the president to the Supreme Court even though there was no existing vacancy on the Court.

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Good thing Obama didn't do that.

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That’s a slippery slope I don’t want any President going down,

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Ditto

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Basically "prospective" means "the sitting Justice announced their retirement and it would go into effect upon confirmation of the nominee."

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The argument is really two-fold. First, the confirmation process is independent of the assumption of the SCOTUS seat, and because of that independence, the President can nominate and have confirmed, a slate of prospective justices. Second, the President now has a slate of pre-confirmed justices that he could then immediately give the oath upon retirement or death of a sitting justice. If the sitting justice(s) do not leave the bench, the pre-confirmed nominees would, in essence, have their nominations expire upon the expiration of the nominating President’s term.

Where is the NRA and why are they not standing up to this tyrannical government? They only have 1 job.