although, if we have a R controlled senate, they could just not fill the vacancy for years on end.

Not feeling very positive about the direction of our country today.

Giving Trump a total of five Court appointments – Trump will replace Thomas with someone as bad or worse.

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for Trump to ram another one of his goons through before the Midterms.
I also would bet that he won't be nominating a woman.

I want him to stick around until we have a Democratic president who will appoint a justice who isn't a right-wing lunatic.

Juárez... Oh, my. Maybe just maybe one of those intensely racist border officials isn't a fan of miscegenation (Loving v Virginia, notwithstanding) and questions the validity of their passports and other documents thus refusing entrance back to the US. Oh, my, Clarence and Ginny. What's an intensely MAGAT couple to do, when all their years of hate toward others is used against THEM?

Just a thought... ahh, Karma...

1. Per his own dictum, lame ducks don't get to name justices on SCOTUS.
2. He needs to stay or hold the seat stay empty until the next Congress gets sworn in.

I think HE thinks the MAGAts will hold the Senate.

IF Dems take the Senate in November, one or both of them might retire before the new Senate is seated. McConnell will be happy to help ram through a confirmation - if he isn't dead.

If either Thomas, Alito, or both resign and Democrats control the Senate in 2027 or 2028, then the Democrats could invoke the McConnell Rule in not letting a sitting presided to appoint a SC Justice at the end of his term.

Obviously, Thomas didn't take the offer.

... I hope Thomas insists on taking it out on a shake down cruise, "Hey Ginny, this thing almost drives itself!!!"

They have already forced our hand on expansion as far as I see it back in '01 but that's gonna be tough. We really need an Obama level wave in '28. I believe if they cram 1 or 2 through they will also be young so if we have the numbers and try to term limit them it will be difficult. I have been a proponent of expansion this entire century but we gotta have rock solid numbers on our side.

I agree Alito will be gone, but Thomas has said in the past that he wanted to stay in the court 43 years. To paraphrase him it was something along the lines of liberals made my life hell for 43 years and now I was to make theirs the same amount of time.

I think Thomas' preference would be to continue on, but we'll see.

I think the power base will retire Thomas at a time of their choosing based on the political winds. His timing doesn't mean shit to them.

If Dems take over Senate, they could pull a Mitch McConnell.

Believe me, Donnie Dipshit can and will find someone even more corrupt, ignorant and self-loathing.

Only support this if Dems take the Senate with enough of a majority to counter John Manchinfetterbum.

If Dems can get 52 Senate seats, we need to be prepared to put the fear of God into them to let SC seats sit empty for two more fucking years.

As long as he's a supreme court justice people have to continue to kiss his ass. Same is true for Alito.

If he resigns before inauguration day, 2029. the Republicans will nominte some 38 year old ideological clone of him that will be on the Court for the next 40 years.

No new nominees until they can be nominated by the next Democratic President. If he expires prior to that, I'd have him embalmed and be there like a taxidermist's work, like he was when Scalia was around. But Trump would nominate someone like Miller, Kirk, or Rubio, and then we'd be fucked for another forty years.

Can you imaging a younger, more evil version of Clarence Thomas being installed on the court by Trump.
I can.

He knows his friends and benefactors will never provide the lifestyle to which he's become accustomed to a black EX-Justice.

I don’t think they would risk waiting and losing the senate. Plus a confirmation process running concurrently with a divisive fall general election campaign would be on brand for Trump, and allow him to apply maximum political pressure to anyone who might waiver on his nominee. I would expect a retirement announcement soon from one of them with an early fall confirmation.