[HomerBohn]

If Clarence Thomas IS actually contemplating retirement he should get together with President Trump and help in the selection of his replacement. He should also help find proper constitutionalists for other spots that may open up.

It’s too bad we don’t have a Chief Justice who will make lives miserable for the lesbians and that old crow who squat on the bench.

[Helicondelta]

Trump should pick Thomas as his VP.

[Wallace T.]

Two reforms are needed, but unlikely to be enacted, even if Trump wins. The first is to expand the number of Supreme Court justices from nine to 15. Franklin Roosevelt tried this strategy in 1937 to overthrow a conservative majority on the high bench that thwarted his New Deal legislation. The Constitution does not specify the number of justices on the Supreme Court. Roosevelt's plan was defeated due to adverse reaction from both Republicans and Democrats.

The second reform would be for Congress to set bounds on the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court and the lower Federal courts, restricting its authority to review of lower Federal court rulings and Federal legislation and administrative decisions. That would eliminate the power of judicial review over the decisions of state courts and legislatures.

However, with anemic leaders like McConnell and Ryan, either reform is unlikely, even if Trump wanted to make such bold recommendations.

[Ben Ficklin]

"proper constitutionalists"

Federalists.

Scalia and Thomas were the first federalists, but back in those days the dems thought that the Federalist Society was merely a debating society.

But by the time Dubya took office, the dems perceived the Federalist Society to be the cornerstone of the VRWC and they created the Constitution Society as an offset.

They would try to block any Bush appointee who was a member of the Federalist Society like Ashcroft and Alito and anyone that they thought was a stealth federalist with a federalist paper trail like Roberts, Janice Brown, and Alberto Gonzales