It is time for Thomas to resign and head off to the sunset in his RV.

[yellowcanine]

What a despicable narrow-minded opinion. (Birthright case)

[Bettie]

1. Not until we have a Democratic president in office

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.

[Dave Bowman]

2. I wish he could head off to hell while at it.

[J_William_Ryan]

3. "time for Thomas to resign"

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

[marble falls]

9. Exactamundo.

[RockCreek]

28. I expect him and/or Alito to resign just in tine

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

[Ocelot II]

4. He'd be replaced with someone just as bad.

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

[marble falls]

10. Exactamundo.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

5. So he can be replaced by some 35 year old crazy person? I hear the DOGE kids aren't busy right now.

[marble falls]

12. 35 years old with MAGA blinders on.

[hlthe2b]

6. Maybe he'll get lost somewhere around El Paso and end up (gasp) in

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...

[marble falls]

7. Not until: ...

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.

[Happy Hoosier]

8. He might retire in Trump's final year.

I think HE thinks the MAGAts will hold the Senate.

[maxsolomon]

14. Thomas AND Alito will retire in Trump's final year.

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.

[LogDog75]

20. This is why we need to win the Senate

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.

[marble falls]

15. I hope he and Ginny really believe that.

[Intractable]

11. John Oliver offered Thomas a 2.4 million dollar RV and more, if he resigns.

Obviously, Thomas didn't take the offer.

[marble falls]

16. Only after the new Congress gets sworn in. ...

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

[CincyDem]

13. Thomas will be gone before 1/2/27 if Dems take the senate. Thune will deliver another Barrett-speed confirmation.

[Cheezoholic]

17. Thomas and Alito IMO will be gone and you are right about the speed but also I would bet young and extremely extreme

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.

[ITAL]

19. Perhaps

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.

[CincyDem]

21. There's a corporate phrase..."you used to retire, now you get retired".

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.

[Sneederbunk]

18. If he resigns, he had better do it soon.

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

[maxrandb]

22. Fuck No!

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.

[Buckeyeblue]

23. He won't retire because then he's not important

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

[DFW]

24. No, it is definitely NOT

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.

[a kennedy]

25. and take his piece of shit wife with him. UGH.

[patphil]

26. After we take control of the Senate please.

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

[usonian]

27. Like the Blues Brothers

[MurrayDelph]

29. He'll never retire.

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

[BannonsLiver]

30. Either Thomas or Alito are going into the sunset before the mid terms.

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.