Speculation swirls about next Supreme Court vacancy

[Peter1469]

Speculation swirls about next Supreme Court vacancy

Rumor has it that J. Thomas will retire while a Repub holds the presidency (and Senate). I am looking forward to the hard left and the "media," sorry to repeat myself, whining over appointing a new justice in an election year.

Speculation over a possible vacancy has focused in recent years on the prospect of Justice Clarence Thomas exiting while Republicans control the White House and Senate, and alternatively on the health of the court’s aging liberal bloc.

Top Senate Republicans drew fresh attention to the bench recently when they said they would confirm a new justice if given the chance despite 2020 being an election year, in an apparent reversal of their rationale for blocking President Obama’s nominee late in his second term.


Such statements, including by Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) earlier this month, revived the unsubstantiated whisper campaign that Thomas was considering retiring now to allow Republicans to replace him with a like-minded, though younger, jurist to lock down conservatives’ 5-4 majority.


Since Trump won the 2016 election, rumors of Thomas’s departure have swirled, particularly after the retirement of former Justice Anthony Kennedy in June 2018 cleared the way for Trump’s second Supreme Court nominee.


Thomas, 71, has repeatedly denied the claims. "I'm not retiring," he said adamantly last spring while speaking at Pepperdine University.

I don't know why he would. It isn't a taxing job.

[MMC]

I doubt he will retire and he keeps saying he isn't. He is having to much fun with other conservatives on the Bench. The left started this crap with Graham knowing Ginsberg is hanging by a thread. Graham has been a useful idiot for the Democrats. He still thinks they are his friends on the other side of the Aisle.