Posted on 11/12/2024 1:49:14 PM PST by DFG
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito does not intend to retire in light of President-elect Donald Trump’s election victory, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Trump’s election sparked speculation Alito and Thomas, 74 and 76 years old, respectively, would retire to enable Trump to appoint younger conservative justices to the bench. However, people close to the justice told the WSJ this is not a factor in Alito’s plans.
“Despite what some people may think, this is a man who has never thought about this job from a political perspective,” an individual close to Alito told the WSJ. “The idea that he’s going to retire for political considerations is not consistent with who he is.”
Alito already hired a law clerk for the 2025-2026 term and will likely have the rest within the next few months, the WSJ reported.
Conservative legal activist and Federalist Society leader Leonard Leo called speculation about justices’ retirements “crass” in a Friday statement.
“No one other than Justices Thomas and Alito knows when or if they will retire, and talking about them like meat that has reached its expiration date is unwise, uninformed and frankly just crass,” Leo said, according to CNN.
During his first term, Trump had Justices Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett confirmed to the Supreme Court, along with over 200 federal judges. He’s slated to begin his second term with fewer available vacancies.
With the Republican Senate majority, Trump should have an easier time getting his appointees confirmed.
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BTW, both Thomas and Alito are younger than DJT. DJT seems to get around OK.
Good news and all the best to his patriot wife.
OK...let them continue. But hopefully in late 2028 they’ll retire if a Rat happens to win the WH.
Only marginally better than the squishy Chief Justice who hung obamacare around our necks...IMHO...
Good. Alito and Thomas are easily the best intellects on the Court.
They have formal training and received degrees from respected law schools - however compromised they might be by their politics.
I think some background in law is essential in a modern SC justice.
Other good choices would be Ron DeSantis and Ted Cruz.
Ben Carson has no legal background. There are plenty of judges who could move up to the court.
SCOTUS is a political body because that’s how America’s domestic enemies perceive it. Given the opportunity, I have no doubt that Democrats will restructure it to their permanent tyranical advantage.
I hope President Trump agrees and chooses future nominees that agree. It would be nice if it were not so, but it is so.
It’s kind of difficult to parse your post.
What do you want Trump to ‘agree’ with?
That SCOTUS is a political body. The Justices are now super legislators that really make laws that the Executive deepstate will uphold religiously. The statists openly admit that, given the chance, they will add as many Justices as they need to stack the deck and they will emanate “rights” from the penumbra to their heart’s content.
Yep. About 30 years too old.
Any justice that Trump pics should be mid-40s and in top physical shape.
I'm sure there would be thousands of constitutional conservatives who he could still choose from.
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