[Textide]

I’d go one step further and have Thomas and Alito resign with Scalia at the same time. Their appointed replacements would not be accepted by the public, even if they are appointed by Congress.

Walking off of the court mid-game due to poor refereeing and cheating by the other team. Historically it would be viewed as resigning with honor and would perhaps start some sort of legal civil war.

Perhaps it will only happen in one of those alternate history books....

[Cboldt]

The court cares not if the decisions are accepted by the public. As long as the decisions are followed by the government actors, all is well in legal-land.

Law is about brute force, not about logic.

[BlackElk]

Bad idea! Justice James Clark McReynolds resigned (took senior status) in 1941 when he was the very last of the great Four Horsemen (Vandevanter, Butler and Sutherland had been the others) on the SCOTUS. His resignation did not roll back the New Deal.