The former Governor of Louisiana has this op-ed in the WSJ:
And it's not just a bad justice. The next President may very well get multiple appointments and shape the Court for a generation to come.
I think electing Donald Trump would be the second-worst thing we could do this November, better only than electing Hillary Clinton to serve as the third term for the Obama administration's radical policies.I don't entirely agree with the first sentence. Electing Bernie Sanders would also be worse, for example. But I assume that Gov. Jindal is assuming that Sanders is not a realistic possibility, which is a pretty fair assumption.* * *The next president will make a critical appointment to the Supreme Court, who will cast the tiebreaking vote in important cases that will set precedents for years to come.* * *In my lifetime, no Democrat in the White House has ever appointed a Supreme Court justice who surprised the nation by becoming more conservative, while the opposite certainly cannot be said for Republican appointments. Mr. Trump might not support a constitutionalist conservative focused on original intent and limits on the court's powers. He may be more likely to appoint Judge Judy. However, there is only a chance that a President Trump would nominate a bad justice, while Mrs. Clinton certainly would.
And it's not just a bad justice. The next President may very well get multiple appointments and shape the Court for a generation to come.
Unfortunately, most members of Congress (from both sides) are much more interested in getting reelected than they are in the balance of power on the Court.
The makeup of the Court is a secondary consideration, at best, in the minds of many powerful members of the GOP who, at this point, refuse to endorse Trump.
For many in the GOP, the predictability of Clinton is better than the unpredictability and policies of Trump, regardless of (1) who is more likely to select a justice(s) whose judicial philosophy is more closely aligned with Scalia than Ginsburg, and (2) their aversion to Clinton's policies.
We can look forward to an Anybody-But-Clinton vs. an Anybody-But-Trump election. What happens to the Court in the short run is anybody's guess, unless, of course, the GOP confirms Garland.