Clarence Thomas mulls retirement

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http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/thomas-may-be-next-to-exit-supreme-court/article/2594317

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.

His retirement would have a substantial impact on control of the court. The next president is expected to immediately replace the seat opened by the death of conservative Justice Antonin Scalia, providing a one-vote edge in the court that is currently divided 4-4.

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.

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So now we're going to have a 6-3 D court? Awesome.

How's that awesome? That would be a disaster. The US would never recover from that calamity.

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Yeah right. Over his dead body would he let a Democrat replace him.

Is that guy Obama hired to snuff out Scalia still around?

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Aren't activist judges normally accused of legislating from the bench (i.e. disagreeing with elected officials too much)? You are describing an overly passive bench.

Disagreeing with elected officials whose sole duty is to legislate, but agreeing with power grabbing tyrants pretending to be presidents.

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Was it tyranny when Republican Presidents filled almost the entire court in 70s and 80s?

You mean when they were appointing people like Brennan, Blackmun, Stevens, and Souter? No, even though they did tend to have pisspoor opinions.

Brennan was appointed by Eisenhower in 1956.

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So now we're going to have a 6-3 D court? Awesome.

How's that awesome? That would be a disaster. The US would never recover from that calamity.

Republicans who whine about "activist judges" and worship Antonin Scalia and the court he served on are hypocrites.

Scalia wasn't an activist judge.

Yes he was. His Heller decision was way out of the conservative constitutional mainstream.