Clarence Thomas mulls retirement

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

Clarence Thomas isn't going anywhere unless he has a viagra heart attack/gets Rockefellered like Scalia.

[Anna Komnene]

I'm not holding my breath over this, but I wouldn't be sad to see this radical conservative activist go.

[Mr.Phips]

He never should have been confirmed in the first place.

Thanks to moderate heroes Chuck Robb and David Boren.

Yep.  Democrats had 57 seats and only needed 41 to filibuster his confirmation

[Mr. Reactionary]

Was it tyranny when Republican Presidents filled almost the entire court in 70s and 80s?

You mean when they were appointing people like Brennan, Blackmun, Stevens, and Souter? No, even though they did tend to have pisspoor opinions.

[LLR]

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE

So now we're going to have a 6-3 D court? Awesome.

How's that awesome? That would be a disaster. The US would never recover from that calamity.

Looks like poor Ljube is afraid of progress

That's not progress. That's tyranny.

So going through the Constitutional process of appointing judges to the Supreme Court is tyranny? Mhm, I understand now.

Don't play dumb! You know damn well what tyranny means!

Tyranny is an unbalanced, politically activist Supreme Court rubber stumping decrees of a tyrannical Emperor.

So A) Hillary Clinton is a tyrannical emperor
B) She'll appoint radical political activists
C) Having an unbalanced supreme court is tyranny
and
D) I'm playing dumb for literally paraphrasing you.

... no comment

[Landslide Lyndon]

Was it tyranny when Republican Presidents filled almost the entire court in 70s and 80s?

You mean when they were appointing people like Brennan, Blackmun, Stevens, and Souter? No, even though they did tend to have pisspoor opinions.

Brennan was appointed by Eisenhower in 1956.

[Bojack Horseman]

So now we're going to have a 6-3 D court? Awesome.

How's that awesome? That would be a disaster. The US would never recover from that calamity.

Republicans who whine about "activist judges" and worship Antonin Scalia and the court he served on are hypocrites.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

So now we're going to have a 6-3 D court? Awesome.

How's that awesome? That would be a disaster. The US would never recover from that calamity.

Republicans who whine about "activist judges" and worship Antonin Scalia and the court he served on are hypocrites.

Scalia wasn't an activist judge. Interpreting the law based out of the Constitution and not based on modern conditions isn't activism, it's simply doing the job.

[Landslide Lyndon]

So now we're going to have a 6-3 D court? Awesome.

How's that awesome? That would be a disaster. The US would never recover from that calamity.

Republicans who whine about "activist judges" and worship Antonin Scalia and the court he served on are hypocrites.

Scalia wasn't an activist judge.

Yes he was. His Heller decision was way out of the conservative constitutional mainstream.

[Bojack Horseman]

So now we're going to have a 6-3 D court? Awesome.

How's that awesome? That would be a disaster. The US would never recover from that calamity.

Republicans who whine about "activist judges" and worship Antonin Scalia and the court he served on are hypocrites.

Scalia wasn't an activist judge. Interpreting the law based out of the Constitution and not based on modern conditions isn't activism, it's simply doing the job.

Antonin Scalia didn't base his rulings on the Constitution, he based them on the GOP platform.

[ag]

So now we're going to have a 6-3 D court? Awesome.

How's that awesome? That would be a disaster. The US would never recover from that calamity.

Considering that you are willing to kill off most Americans, including your own parents, by electing Donald Trump to presidency - and that just to have some fun - you should be the last one talking about calamities.

[Rocky Rockefeller]

It is now absolutely imperative for Trump to become the next president to avoid the dire and irreversible consequences of a majority Democrat activist Supreme Court.

Seek help

[This account no longer in use.]

Oh, boy! If this happens, known radical Hillary Clinton will fill the courts with Muslim atheist Satanist transgender SJWs and abortion doctors.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

It is now absolutely imperative for Trump to become the next president to avoid the dire and irreversible consequences of a majority Democrat activist Supreme Court.

As opposed to the dire and irreversible consequences of the current majority Republican reactionary Supreme Court? In any case, in the long run elections will set things right.  It's not as if the Court is ever going to pick the President that will nominate members of the Court. </sarcasm>

[Illiniwek]

Nevermind my rants about how Clarence Thomas was destined to break the record for longest tenured SCOTUS justice...

So now we're going to have a 6-3 D court? Awesome.

How's that awesome? That would be a disaster. The US would never recover from that calamity.

Republicans who whine about "activist judges" and worship Antonin Scalia and the court he served on are hypocrites.

Scalia wasn't an activist judge. Interpreting the law based out of the Constitution and not based on modern conditions isn't activism, it's simply doing the job.

Antonin Scalia didn't base his rulings on the Constitution, he based them on the GOP platform.

Scalia was selectively a Constitutional literalist when it suited him.

Let's get real. He is not going to let Hillary Clinton appoint his successor. If there are two vacancies on the court (Scalia and Thomas) then I guarantee that the Republicans will refuse to let anyone fill those seats until they have a GOP president. It just isn't going to happen. We really may see the Supreme Court permanently shrink until there is a president with a filibuster proof majority in the senate.

[Ebsy]

This is really scary. If Clinton replaces Scalia's seat, Thomas retires, and Kennedy does or retires, that's a 7-2 radical leftist activist court.

We could only be so lucky.

[MK]

They must have already threatened him with the same fate as Scalia.

[Blair]

Clarence Thomas isn't going anywhere unless he has a viagra heart attack/gets Rockefellered like Scalia.

Rockerfellered meaning dying on top a 25 year old secretary Didn't know that hows Scalia went out

[progressive85]

This is really scary. If Clinton replaces Scalia's seat, Thomas retires, and Kennedy does or retires, that's a 7-2 radical leftist activist court.

No, That's what I call a progressive court.  The Democrats have been waiting decades to wrest the court back from the Republicans.  It's our turn, dammit.  You guys had your run.

[Sir Mohamed]

Hope he retires. His successor should be someone like his predecessor Thurgood Marshall, who was a really great justice.

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

President Trump will appoint a suitable replacement for him and Scalia both.

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

Was it tyranny when Republican Presidents filled almost the entire court in 70s and 80s?

You mean when they were appointing people like Brennan, Blackmun, Stevens, and Souter? No, even though they did tend to have pisspoor opinions.

What about Rehnquist, Powell, Burger or Scalia, followed by Thomas in early 1990s? Not to mention O'Connor who leaned to the right more frerquently than not.

[Taco Truck 🚚]

Just to get back on topic...

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http://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/284086-wife-of-justice-clarence-thomas-shoots-down-retirement-rumors

So wonderful when people use the Washington Examiner as a source.

[Tartarus Sauce]

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE

So now we're going to have a 6-3 D court? Awesome.

How's that awesome? That would be a disaster. The US would never recover from that calamity.

Looks like poor Ljube is afraid of progress

That's not progress. That's tyranny.

So going through the Constitutional process of appointing judges to the Supreme Court is tyranny? Mhm, I understand now.

Don't play dumb! You know damn well what tyranny means!

Do you know what it is though? Considering you're a Trump supporter, you either don't or would willingly vote for one who would rule as such.

[IceSpear]

Just to get back on topic...

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http://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/284086-wife-of-justice-clarence-thomas-shoots-down-retirement-rumors

So wonderful when people use the Washington Examiner as a source.

Told you guys this was made up to try to convince Republicans to rally around Trump.

The "article" barely even has any meat on it. It's just designed to be something to link to in order to scare ol grandma who may not like Trump into making sure Hillary can't appoint baby killers to SCOTUS.