Posted on 06/20/2016 2:05:53 PM PDT by Kaslin
This item in the Washington Examiner touched off a brief spate of panic among right-leaning Court watchers late yesterday, as conservatives contemplated the potential ramifications of another SCOTUS vacancy arising upon the departure of a reliably conservative justice. Antonin Scalia's death earlier this year was a serious blow that underscored the stakes of the fall election. Could it possibly be true that Clarence Thomas is also eying the exits -- even with the Democrats favored to retain the White House at this point in the race?
Justice Clarence Thomas, a reliable conservative vote on the Supreme Court, is mulling retirement after the presidential election, according to court watchers. Thomas, appointed by former President George H.W. Bush and approved by the Senate after a bitter confirmation, has been considering retirement for a while and never planned to stay until he died, they said. He likes to spend summers in his RV with his wife...Should Thomas leave, that slight majority would continue if Donald Trump becomes president. If it's Hillary Clinton, then she would get the chance to flip two Republican seats, giving the liberals a 6-3 majority.
This "insider information" struck me as speculative-to-unlikely, especially in light of Thomas' relative youth (he's 67) and his decision after Scalia's death to actively participate in oral arguments for the first time in years -- which many interpreted as a signal that he was seeking to help make up for the loss of Scalia's intellectual heft on the Court's right flank. With Washington holding its collective breath, the George H.W. Bush-appointed Justice's wife, conservative activist Ginni Thomas, took to Facebook and unequivocally doused the rumors:
For all those who are contacting me about the possibility of my husband retiring, I say -- unsubscribe from those false news sources and carry on with your busy lives. IT. IS. BOGUS! Paul Bedard needs to find a phone in his life and unnamed sources are worth as much as their transparency is. A funny close friend wrote me: "Next we'll hear that you and he have bought a small private island near Nevis, with a large satellite dish so that all the Nebraska college sports games won't be missed, and a large Green Egg that can slow cook the indigenous wild boar. Let us know when you are shipping off so we can all chip in to buy a suitable retirement present for your husband -- perhaps matching lounge chairs and umbrellas."
The High Court is currently in the midst of its annual ritual of releasing its much-anticipated rulings. Only eight justices are on the bench at the moment, as Senate Republicans have followed the Biden Rule and declined to hold hearings or votes on President Obama's lame duck nomination of Merrick Garland to replace Scalia, arguing that the next president should have that prerogative after the voters have spoken.
That probably made many LIB asshat snowflakes cry and use their pacifier
I said it yesterday...don’t jump on a rumor.
“Retirement Rumors Aren’t True”
Best news I have heard all day. God Bless Justice Thomas...
Court died on Feb 13th 2016. We all did as a nation. It was official on that sad day. Cried for days.
God Bless him indeed, and also his wife.
Thank God. Now that they murdered Scalia, they are targeting Thomas.
Hummmm.
If I were in the good Justice’s shoes, I’d be revisiting my security arrangements and vetting the crap out of everybody I let get within long gun range of me and my family...
(Do I think “somebody” who wishes him ill might try to fulfill his own wishes? Don’t ask an old Chicago boy sillya$$ questions....)
We travel in an RV a lot and I keep looking for him. I know he’s a huge Nebraska football fan so I would think he would be somewhere in the midwest occasionally.
Good.
I’ve posted this story before. I want to say it was around 2003 (give or take a year).
I was filling up our at the time, large SUV (a Ford Expedition—we had 5 TALL kids under 14) at a Sheetz gas station on Rt 22 just outside of Delmont, PA. We had come back from a soccer game for one of the two oldest. Siblings were hot, sweaty and cranky. Oldest two were dispatched, with cash, into the Sheetz store to get slushies for four (the youngest was a baby).
On the other side of my gas pump was a YUGE RV being gassed up by a very distinguished looking Af-Am man of about 50ish, who looked vaguely familiar. My kids erupted into world war three when oldest “layered” two flavors of slushie into his cup while making “single flavor” slushes for the others.
Hilarity ensued as the power windows went up and down w/protests of NOT FAIR! And I wanted BKUE SLUSHIES!!!My pumpmate w/the YUGE RV just laughed and laughed. (In an endearing “better you than me lady” kinda way).
I read years later that the Thomas’s RV. It had to be him.
My brush w/ JUSTICE!!!
Good for Ginnie. Good for Justice Thomas
Bad got the lame stream press
HOORAY!
Clarence Thomas is truly a patriot.
If Trump wins, this might be a good idea. If Hitlery wins, he hopefully won’t even think about it.
Thank God.
Enjoyed your story!
We need Clarence for the sane conservative vote or necessary gridlock
Just another head fake the stupid Party fell for!
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