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Miles Archer

(24,378 posts) Tue Jul 29, 2025, 05:42 PM Jul 2025

Not ghoulish at all! Republicans lick their lizard lips over retirement or the Grim Reaper takin' Sammy & Clarence out

The White House is making plans for when Justices Alito and Thomas die or retire: insiders

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-supreme-court-2673779934/

A White House official said, “We are looking for people in the mold of Alito, Clarence Thomas, and the late Scalia." That official confessed that it was "premature" to admit they're talking about a vacancy.

A death and a retirement allowed Trump to appoint two judges. He scored a third judge after the Senate Majority Leader refused to allow President Barack Obama to appoint a justice at the end of his term in office.

Lawfare's editor-in-chief, Benjamin Wittes, told TIME, “There’s a lot of anger at Amy Coney Barrett coming from the MAGA movement."

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In a New York Times op-ed, legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin suggested that Trump is "grooming" his former attorney, Emil Bove, for the job.

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Not ghoulish at all! Republicans lick their lizard lips over retirement or the Grim Reaper takin' Sammy & Clarence out (Original Post) Miles Archer Jul 2025 OP

Emil Bove will face very tough questions from the Dems on the Judiciary committee. ProudMNDemocrat Jul 2025 #1

So dead or nearly dead is not a deal breaker. marble falls Jul 2025 #2

Tnere's going to have to be a bribe...er ah...gratuity...to get those two... brush Jul 2025 #3

I think Alito will retire, but Thomas will need assume room temperature before he leaves. tritsofme Jul 2025 #4

This is why it is important to take the Senate next year. Norbert Jul 2025 #5

ProudMNDemocrat

(20,984 posts)

1. Emil Bove will face very tough questions from the Dems on the Judiciary committee.

Reply to Miles Archer (Original post)

Tue Jul 29, 2025, 05:52 PM

Jul 2025

Perhaps even from some of the Republicans who KNOW better than to go soft on Bove who are Lawyers and say they know the Law.

We will see.

marble falls

(72,546 posts)

2. So dead or nearly dead is not a deal breaker.

Reply to Miles Archer (Original post)

Tue Jul 29, 2025, 05:55 PM

Jul 2025

brush

(61,033 posts)

3. Tnere's going to have to be a bribe...er ah...gratuity...to get those two...

Reply to Miles Archer (Original post)

Tue Jul 29, 2025, 06:38 PM

Jul 2025

ultra maga a-holes to step wown before they have to be carried out on a gurney.

tritsofme

(19,933 posts)

4. I think Alito will retire, but Thomas will need assume room temperature before he leaves.

Reply to Miles Archer (Original post)

Tue Jul 29, 2025, 06:49 PM

Jul 2025

He may end up being their Ginsburg.

Norbert

(7,858 posts)

5. This is why it is important to take the Senate next year.

Reply to Miles Archer (Original post)

Tue Jul 29, 2025, 06:54 PM

Jul 2025

The one thing worse than a near octogenarian Clarence Thomas is a 45 year-old with the blessing of the Federalist Society.

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