I wonder if he would retire with a Democratic president

it would be really bad news cuz it would mean the GOP has figured out how to cheat with impunity

It’d be done immediately. The reason we didn’t get a replacement for RBG is we didn’t have the senate.

Alito is probably retiring because he's afraid journalists will dig up alot more crap on him.

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After Dems win the election

and refuse to go if Harris wins.

If TFG wins in November, he sticks it out until after Jan 20 so a Republican appoints his successor. If TFG loses, he could retire any time after the election is called, because then a Dem appoints his successor regardless. (Well, there's one more variable, which is if Harris wins, but the Senate majority shifts to Republican control... but that's an almost impossible scenario.)

Compliments of "It Happened One Night."

DO IT!

Alito could dig a six foot deep hole then jump in,... his wife could then cover the body with animal dung.

A fitting departure - if there was ever one - for this Khristo-Fascist moron.

She should join him!

Plus, he is making too much money grifting off a court with no ethics requirements.

just a few more paid decisions to go.

GOP really only has the hardcore magas and religious nuts left as a base. They are trying hard to get every jesus fanatic out to the polls in november. Between trumpy promising no more voting after this one and now this...

"OMG alito might retire! We need trump to appoint another handmaid to the court!"

Surely that wasn't a jab at committed Democratic voters, right? Just curious what the "other way" meaning is of the cutting sword.

It can also inspire more voters in Harris’ direction so we can get another more progressive justice, right?

I guess this is just a pet peeve of mine, so forgive me!

Amy Coney Barrett isn't a handmaid. The handmaids are the protagonists and the heroines of the story. We would be lucky to have some handmaids on the court, because the handmaids are the ones who rebel and who get stuff done.

He would want another Christofascist Commander Fred on the court.

The Handmaids are the victims of the christofascists. The oppressed and silenced masses.

He's a bad person.

The originals were stopped by the judiciary committee or the media was harsh on them. So we got stuck with those two. Harriet Myers was the pick bush wanted instead of Alito.

I think, seem to recall.

Bork was Reagan's first pick in 1987. He wound up settling for Anthony Kennedy.

It. But just that Tomas was the result. By the way, he died in 2012 when President Obama was president. Just a little fact.

Bork nominated to replace Powell…ultimately filled by Kennedy.
Thomas nominated to fill Marshall’s seat…no indication he was a second stringer at the time.

Shrub ORIGINALLY wanted Roberts for the Sandra Day O'Connor vacancy... but then Rehnquist bought the farm. So a switcheroo happened where Roberts was instead submitted to directly replace Rehnquist as Chief Justice and then Miers was next up.

When Miers failed, that is when Alito was brought in to finally take O'Connor's seat.

So he was the 3rd string pick.

Threaten the loss of a RW SCOTUS seat if TFG isn’t elected.

with the assumption that both Alito and Thomas could retire and be replaced by "young" RW loons, sealing the court's fate for decades.

the bribing class takes him off the payroll.

The VRA mostly gutted
Roe overturned
Firearms regulations are in the process of being completely stripped
CRA being pulled apart
Chevron overturned, starting what could be an avalanche of the removal of any federal regulatory authority over corporations

Stare decisis is no more.

His usefulness is up and a "younger" version is called for now. He'll get his severance bonus.

And faster

And take at least two or three with you.

But only after the fact. Maybe he expects a big pay-off for all his years of serving the oligarchy.

about ethics rules getting implemented?

of his court. Can he be replaced with one of the other justices?

When he retires, the person who replaces him is chief Justice.

...I'm retired and it's great...!!

...you can go fishing whenever you want...putter around the house...

...you can sleep in late every morning an best of all, they'll give you free government money every month for sitting on your ass...

...wait, okay, you're already getting free government money for sitting on your ass...

...but go for it anyway, sam...

How will Sammy ever cope?

Maybe he would have gone earlier. He knows what is coming as does Thomas and Roberts. Their time on the court is coming to an end. They did this to themselves.

why not retire now that the damage is done.

i hate republicans

He could be needed to install trump as president.

motherfucker.

i don't believe he'll retire before the election there's no fucking way.

Letters to SCOTUS.
Letters to Congress.
Letters to editors.

Alito and Thomas must go.

Oh, and while we are at it, let's get rid of NoSuch Gorsuch, Beer Bong Kavanaugh, and the Holy Roller woman.

He might be needed to install trump with a win.

Remember when Trump replaced Ginsburg only a week before the 2020 election? Yeah, me too........

Especially, if ethics reforms are passed.

to try and encourage his billionaire buddies to give him a raise.

Deflection, shiny penny: any story to get any coverage off Kamala. Don’t fall for it

...and then gets out of the line of fire.

It's bullshit. Just like the leak on Dobbs 3 months early in a non-presidential election year. Alito is playing with people and votes.

If you resign quietly and disappear from public life, we will not charge you with taking bribes, falsifying financial forms, and tax evasion.

A jury of peers would not take long to connect the dots between a free motor home, lavish vacations, perks for realtives (like tuition) and votes on cases that always went the direction of the Crow amicus brief.

The quid pro quo is obvious to any person who is not headless.

Your votes went 125-0 in favor of Crow's opinions...not a coincidence. Especially if you were in a 6-3, 7-2, or 8-1 minority .

I say ship'im to Saudi Arabia - on Crow's dime, of course.

Face Congress and maybe charges from the DOJ or keep things under the table, spruce up the Winnebago and settle in for a nice retirement.

I rebuke thee, demon. Get thee gone!
😁

Methinks there's a chance he's trying to move the needle in the election to get the magas motivated.

Fascists never surrender power for no reason.

Martha Alito must be thrilled she’ll finally be able to fly her freak flags without repercussions.

He’s frustrated, wants out, knows the orange blofus is unlikely to win and wants to just move on according to his timetable. All the recent debacles in the Supreme Court almost give him cover to escape the zoo he created under his own terms. Good riddance and don’t let your robe get caught on the way out. Take traitor Thomas with you.

he still gets to live in the lap of luxury on our dime.

The avatar of the nationalizing women's internal organs and declaring as much as "freedom."

This piece of shit doesn't deserve retirement so much as prison for perjury for testifying before Congress about whether Roe v. Wade was "settled law."

if the Orange Fraudster "wins"....


Otherwise he has too much power to give up....

Make my day!