comment_id,post_id,post_title,body,score,created_utc
jpvcaph,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election",They will only retire if there is a Republican President.,2630,2023-06-28 15:49:01
jpvbksh,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election","Retirement, impeachment, expulsion, imprisonment

It all works for me.",1666,2023-06-28 15:44:20
jpvpv69,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election","They will wheel Thomas into the court room like Commander Pike. Flash the light once for yes, twice for no...",1437,2023-06-28 17:14:30
jpvck2y,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election",[deleted],687,2023-06-28 15:50:42
jpvf0yw,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election","""We can't possibly vote for a new justice only 4 years before the next Presidential Election!!""",575,2023-06-28 16:06:24
jpvsznc,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election","Thomas doesn't speak in court, no need for communication lights.",530,2023-06-28 17:33:48
jpvc4e2,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election",I'd rather not get banned again.,484,2023-06-28 15:47:53
jpvdgws,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election",End citizens United and watch the American political world turn right side up.,431,2023-06-28 15:56:26
jpvbs31,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election",I think you missed one.,386,2023-06-28 15:45:39
jpwbe05,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election","> but he does have whispered exchanges with those sitting next to him

Those vacations are not going to plan themselves.",329,2023-06-28 19:29:35
jpvc13t,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election","I don't believe they'll ever retire (well maybe if a Republican is president), but they are most likely to be the next vacancies on the court. Thomas and Alito will be nearly 77 and 75 respectively when the next president takes office. The Supreme Court and Scalia's vacancy was a big factor in Trump's 2016 win and Democrats need to counter it this time as it will assist Republican turnout.",311,2023-06-28 15:47:17
jpwaei6,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election","> RGB should have retired under Obama, but of course hindsight is 20/20.

It isn't really hindsight, as people were already calling for her to retire at the time.  She refused.",280,2023-06-28 19:23:20
jpvnyro,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election","That’s the next argument, I guarantee it. We can never ever let the GOP gain control of any branch of government ever again",243,2023-06-28 17:02:33
jpw0t9p,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election","To be completely fair, Democrats do this too, which makes a ton of sense. RGB should have retired under Obama, but of course hindsight is 20/20. The ridiculousness is the bullshit that the GOP pulled when Obama was nominating Garland. That was some low brow shit.",229,2023-06-28 18:22:46
jpw5dvt,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election","As someone who has been in the courtroom for some arguments - Thomas doesn't speak out loud very often, but he does have whispered exchanges with those sitting next to him.",220,2023-06-28 18:51:21
jpwdgym,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election",But they do pay for themselves,177,2023-06-28 19:42:59
jpwe1r4,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election",Obama himself asked her to step down when the democrats had a healthy Senate majority in his first term lol.,173,2023-06-28 19:46:41
jpvhjht,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election","Exactly. America is under threat due to dark money contributions from hostile foreign nations. Fix the gaping national security hole and restore our defenses. 

There should be no ""dark money"" in American politics.",159,2023-06-28 16:22:29
jpviljv,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election",">Democrats’ failure to confirm Obama-nominee Merrick Garland in 2016

Fuck that phrasing; Democrats didn't fail at anything. Republicans failed at being part of a democracy.",145,2023-06-28 16:29:03
jpvpb5j,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election","Of course if the GOP is in power, a justice could die on Inauguration day and they've hold a vote before noon.",139,2023-06-28 17:11:01
jpwdxs3,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election","In 2009, the democrats had a *very* strong senate majority, and even briefly a super majority. RBG had just recieved her **second** cancer diagnosis, in addition to other health concerns, and already being old as dirt.

She could've been great, but instead her legacy will be Dobbs and other terrible rulings, given by a court that her ego helped stack.",136,2023-06-28 19:45:59
jpvt92v,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election",Man are they ban happy all over.,130,2023-06-28 17:35:26
jpvo366,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election","> They'll never retire and they each could realistically live to be 100. So we've possibly got another 20-25 years with them unfortunately.

While this is mathematically possible, the chances of either one staying around that long are slim even on the off chance they do reach the century mark.   Thomas particularly doesn't look like the most physically fit person on earth.   I'd actually say that they've probably got 10-15 years left before they either die of natural causes or become too ill to continue.  

That said, Neither one of them are going to retire while a Democrat is President and/or Democrats control the Senate if they can do anything about it, and any GOP-controlled Senate is going to block any Democrat president's choice no matter what, because there's apparently a papal bull that says that any time the GOP is in control of the Senate, it's always too close to an election for a Democrat to nominate an SC judge, and the United states obviously always follows ancient manuscripts from centuries ago from a completely different continent.",125,2023-06-28 17:03:19
jpvcp0u,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election",They'll never retire and they each could realistically live to be 100. So we've possibly got another 20-25 years with them unfortunately.,115,2023-06-28 15:51:35
jpvvlja,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election",Aggressive auto-mods and ban happy admins on the eve of their IPO,107,2023-06-28 17:50:04
jpvwyyf,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election","I just got back from a 7 day ban for saying bad things about churches with child molester priests.

Edit: I also enjoy that people who abuse the suicide alert seem to suffer no consequences.",107,2023-06-28 17:58:37
jpwe9pf,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election","This is no longer true.  He went for a decade without asking a question in the 2000's, and continued to have entire years where he'd not ask a question from the bench.  However, since the remote arguments during the Covid WFH years he has started asking questions from the bench.

The fact remains though that he could be comatose and still will have instructions to not vacate his seat if there isn't a Republican to nominate his replacement.",95,2023-06-28 19:48:07
jpwkfhj,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election",Which is exactly why the Dems got aggressive with Stephen Breyer about retiring last year. They weren’t about to lose another seat in case the GOP took the Senate.,90,2023-06-28 20:26:58
jpvhnot,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election","> It found that the Democrats’ failure to confirm Obama-nominee Merrick Garland in 2016, combined with the death in 2016 of liberal Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who was quickly replaced by Trump, “reduced its likely control of the court by about 19 years out of the next 100 and increased the number of years until the party takes control again by 36 years.”  

Well its nice to have numbers to the fuckery, I guess.

> The conservative majority now on the court is likely to be there for some time, regardless of what happens with Alito and Thomas.  

> An analysis of the court’s projected composition by academics at three prestigious schools suggested the next time the majority of justices will be appointed by a Democrat is likely to be around 2065.   

This seems like a weird supposition. If Alito and Thomas are expected to retire soon, seems to me all Dems need to do is win the next two presidential elections. Which doesn't seem out of the question with the way the Republican party is acting. If they don't about face after losing 2024, another loss in 2028 doesn't seem very farfetched. But maybe they are factoring in Senate control and future Merrick Garland type fuckery? Bah.",87,2023-06-28 16:23:12
jpwfcg3,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election",Let's make sure there isn't another Republican president in their lifetimes! Democrats won popular vote in literally every election since 1992 besides 2004. We just need to work on shoring up electoral college.,85,2023-06-28 19:54:57
jpwb5t9,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election","Even when Obama had the opportunity to appoint a supreme court justice, McConnell blocked it. Totally unlawful and the Democrats did nothing.",82,2023-06-28 19:28:07
jpvqjox,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election","That's the way it usually goes, of course. That's why RBG not retiring under Obama's run as President stands out so much. If Biden wins again, they will both stick around for another four years. If Trump wins (more likely than most people think), they'll retire and guarantee a conservative majority for at least 20 years and likely closer to 30.",79,2023-06-28 17:18:42
jpwkldw,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election","Knowing Republicans they'd probably try to push some new precedent that says court justices can still serve despite being dead.

Then we'll end up having a whole lawsuit about it, and the republican controlled SCOTUS would be like yeah checks out.",74,2023-06-28 20:28:00
jpwrus3,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election",">  She refused.

Not only did she refuse, she said people who were asking her to step down were sexist.",70,2023-06-28 21:14:15
jpwliy8,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election","You raise an underrated point that says more about the 2016 election than most will ever realize.

Too many people underestimated Trump simply because they didn't pay attention to how badly the conservatives were looking to rig the SC. Not enough of the left took the dangers of a conservative takeover seriously (in retrospect, replacing 3 seats in 4 years was pretty unusual, as foolish as it was to ignore it).

The vacancy fully explains why the religious right literally abandoned all of their principles to support such a horrid figure that is the antithesis of all their so called moral values.",65,2023-06-28 20:33:56
jpwdfib,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election",People were telling her to retire when Dems controlled the Senate.,64,2023-06-28 19:42:43
jpwf8ym,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election","If only we could go back in time… but at least the Democrats seem to be learning from their mistakes, such as in Minnesota, where they’ve thrown caution to the wind and are using their one-vote majority to cram through their entire agenda as fast as possible.",64,2023-06-28 19:54:21
jpvsilu,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election","Alito and Thomas are 73 and 75 respectively. They might not have 5 years to wait. They might not live long enough to see another Republican president. Hopefully, none of us will.",60,2023-06-28 17:30:49
jpvnzx7,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election","I do blame Obama, he should have seated Garland and made the argument that withholding “advise and consent” is in fact tacit consent.  It’s not a hard argument to make because otherwise you’re saying that if the senate and presidency are held by different parties for an extended amount of time that the senate can effectively scuttle the supreme court.  I think the court for it’s own preservation would have sided with Obama.",60,2023-06-28 17:02:45
jpw3e44,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election","Well, the founding fathers created a system of government with far too many gentlemen's agreements of decorum that allowed them.

But yeah, I guess we could have revolted too.   But I had to work that day.",60,2023-06-28 18:38:46
jpw9gtx,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election","Too ill to continue? I doubt it, Feinstein practically needs someone raising her hand when it’s time to vote and she’s still in office.

Until and unless there’s an age cap, they’ll continue well into senility.",55,2023-06-28 19:17:22
jpvwpi9,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election","Neither party should ever confirm a Justice appointed by the president of the other party again. At least not without some major resetting of how SCOTUS nominations work going forward. 

When McConnell blocked Garland, that Rubicon was crossed. His excuses about how long until the next election were, of course, just rhetoric. They had no qualms for confirming ACB. And, yes, they'll block any appointment by Biden if they can for 4 years.

Dems should do the same thing if the opposite comes up. That's just how it works now. Returning to ""normalcy"" on that would be just giving up a seat to young judge who'll be there for 30+ years.",53,2023-06-28 17:56:59
jpwb3od,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election","True, but the difference is that we want her to resign.",52,2023-06-28 19:27:44
jpvc2q8,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election",[removed],49,2023-06-28 15:47:35
jpvgpb4,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election",These creeps aren’t retiring any time soon.  This just both parties doing a political exercise and speculation to keep their bases engaged,45,2023-06-28 16:17:08
jpwtaav,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election",She wanted Hilary Clinton to name her replacement as the first female president in the history of the country.   Unfortunately reality didn’t follow early polling,44,2023-06-28 21:23:40
jpwjx72,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election","minnesotan here, and I'm all about it. We're an island of blue surrounded by a red sea of nutjobs. Wisconsin is at least trying, but they've been gerrymandered to shit and it'll take time. iowa, ND, and SD are all mask off though.",44,2023-06-28 20:23:50
jpw5zw3,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election","Got perma-banned (for a while) for pointing out the consequences of fascism a la Mussolini--in other words, for stating a plain historical fact.",44,2023-06-28 18:55:10
jpw2hgh,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election",And we let them.,43,2023-06-28 18:33:06
jpve6jy,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election",[removed],41,2023-06-28 16:00:58
jpvnlka,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election","No, Democrats failed. And they failed *hard*. Obama specifically.

Obama had a number of things he could have tried to get Garland seated. He tried exactly none of them, and allowed the Republican Senate to get away with snubbing their noses at the power of the Presidency and the Constitution. It's impossible to say whether any of those solutions would have worked, but at least trying them would have been better than leaving the seat open and counting on Hillary Clinton to win an election to fill the seat.",40,2023-06-28 17:00:15
jpvorhf,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election","""failed to seat"" could be valid. But ""failed to confirm"" is so adled.

The phrasing absolves Republicans of their leading role in the situation.",40,2023-06-28 17:07:34
jpw9wlw,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election","When people talk about ways to protect democracy from this slide into fascism we're looking at, this is the fucking solution. They need to legally enshrine these gentlemen's agreements into actual law. No more ""a good person will do the right thing"" in the US government. It can't be assumed. 

Those gaps in the legal armor are what fascists will exploit.",40,2023-06-28 19:20:10
jpvev0x,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election",Afuckingmen.,37,2023-06-28 16:05:21
jpvmy89,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election","Easy. A corporation isn’t a fucking person. It’s an entity, and therefore cannot “speak” or express speech. It was a bullshit argument when they codified it, and has been bullshit the entire time.",37,2023-06-28 16:56:16
jpwpohx,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election",Weekend at Clarence’s,37,2023-06-28 21:00:05
jpvhbt3,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election",[removed],36,2023-06-28 16:21:07
jpvqek7,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election","Oh, you mean ""aging out of the role, in a permanent manner"".",35,2023-06-28 17:17:50
jpwtmpy,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election","Correction: Thomas used to not speak in the court. Now he speaks first. During the Pandemic they switched to a system where the judges speak based on Seniority, and for whatever reason it has led to Thomas speaking more as he gets to go first. 

That said, at Oral Arguments Justices nowadays talk more like the Advocates than they do Judges, often literally helping their favored side make their argument.",35,2023-06-28 21:25:59
jpwpg3s,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election","Anecdotal of course, but I knew several Republicans personally in 2016 who expressed disgust at Trump yet told me they were voting for him anyway simply because of that open SCOTUS seat. Democrats now like to blame Hillary, or Comey, or Russia, and yea they all played a part, but I rarely hear about that factor. Look at Hawley's quote in the article and you can tell the GOP is going to play that card again because they know their potential nominees are all unpopular.

>“Republicans have had the majority of Supreme Court appointments for decades now and have not succeeded in getting a stable conservative majority on that court until very recently,” [Hawley] said. “Does the next election matter for the court? I think it really does. I don’t know how much of a [conservative] majority it is. I don’t know how stable it is.”",34,2023-06-28 20:58:36
jpw30tc,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election","Same. I was banned for talking about people in general being likely to uprise against the billionaire class because they’re pushing the working class to the very edge and there isn’t really an option against climate change or living conditions without a mass uprising. That led to a nonstop snowball of every comment being flagged for violence and getting completely banned from the site no matter how many different emails or accounts I tried lol 

Didn’t *actually* call on anyone to do anything. Literally just pointed out the obvious but you really, really can’t insinuate the upper class is in any danger of losing their safety bubble lol",34,2023-06-28 18:36:27
jpwfoth,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election","Yeah, that's not true anymore. When Scalia died he started to talk a small amount in certain cases. When covid hit and they went remote, they built a ridged structure for Justice hypotheticals and he became just as talkative as any other Justice, and it seems to have carried over once they got back together. I haven't listen to an oral argument in years that hasn't included his questions from the bench.",32,2023-06-28 19:57:05
jpx57t9,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election",“Psst! Want a sip of this soda?”,31,2023-06-28 22:46:53
jpwb9th,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election","To be fair, that has absolutely nothing to do with this.",29,2023-06-28 19:28:50
jpwf7ot,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election","It wasn’t unlawful and there’s nothing the Dems could have done. It was just absolutely shitty decorum and just helped further drive a wedge in the nation. It’s wild to me that Trump supporters hate McConnell. He has done more for them than Trump ever has. I guess he just isn’t openly hateful enough? Idk.

Garbage people being garbage politicians.",29,2023-06-28 19:54:08
jpx8aow,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election","And a whole bunch of Reddit agreed with her back then.

Far too many on here still do... Though the loss of Roe has clearly been a shocking wake-up call for more than few of the formerly naive children in here.

Reality check. 

BTW, guys...? If you could see your way to clear show up in 2024 and not protest vote/protest stay home, that'd be cool.

Or, you know, you can pout at your available choices, like in 2016, and help usher in the age of Gilead even faster.

Most of you are younger than me. You have more to lose. 

You'll suffer for longer if you let them take over.

Most elections aren't about winning so much as they are about not losing even more.",29,2023-06-28 23:09:06
jpwhk5f,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election","McConnell didn’t become majority leader until 2015 (after GOP flipped the Senate in 2014). The Dems had the Senate majority for the first 6 years of Obama’s time in office. They were asking her to step down when Obama had the Senate numbers to confirm her replacement, and she refused.",29,2023-06-28 20:09:01
jpvsajr,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election",">  If Alito and Thomas are expected to retire soon,

Alito and Thomas *won't* retire when there is a Democratic president or a Democratic Senate, only for a Republican one.  People are also living longer so it's hard to predict when they'll die, and even if it turns into continuous Democratic rule for over a decade, they can just choose not to retire, even if in ill health, until the inevitable Republican finally wins a decade or two later.

Basically, Republicans just have to win once until those justices die, while Democrats have to win every single time in order to eventually get those seats.",27,2023-06-28 17:29:26
jpwddd1,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election","It wasn't unlawful, it was just a horrendous breach of our nation's political norms.",27,2023-06-28 19:42:21
jpw4y4r,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election","It's like gerrymandering. It's gross, but if your opponents are doing it, and you're not, you're screwed.",27,2023-06-28 18:48:37
jpwdm8z,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election",Nor will that scat porn download itself,27,2023-06-28 19:43:55
jpvp2qk,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election","And those individuals are free to donate within the normal constraint. Or speak in the public square.

You’re being as obtuse as the corrupt justices who OK’d this in the first place. Citizens United is a lot more than “corporations are people” and also covers the whole “untapped funnel of dark money.”

Some of us remember the world pre-Citizens United (and pre-Patriot Act for that matter but that’s a whole different bucket of frogs) and know precisely how much bullshit this decision was.

My refusing proves nothing. It just shows you’re quick to jump to fallacies. If you show your ass any more, this would be a porno.",26,2023-06-28 17:09:33
jpwp5ho,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election","Does the constitution specify that a justice has to be alive? I'm just asking questions here...


Edit:

>The Constitution states that Justices ""shall hold their Offices during good Behaviour.""

""That justice Alito has been so well behaved since his passing, I see no reason to interrupt such a dynamic, inclusive court""",25,2023-06-28 20:56:44
jpwzw2o,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election","But Garland was a compromise when suggested by a Republican held House, to bait Obama into spurning bipartisanship.",25,2023-06-28 22:08:30
jpw0lhg,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election","Ehhh, we thought that in 2008. Not a good thing to count on.",25,2023-06-28 18:21:27
jpw2t4f,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election",Obama should have appointed Scalia's replacement and forced the GOP's hand to remove them through unprecedented and constitutionally vague means. What the GOP did to Garland in 2015 was disgusting. They refused to even meet the guy.,24,2023-06-28 18:35:08
jpvzmmo,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election","My 'friend's got banned for the 3rd time because automod algorithms can understand context and keeps thinking he's ""threatening violence ""

I hate the age of ai",24,2023-06-28 18:15:21
jpvrdf7,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election",These guys will never retire during a Democratic administration. They will die in place and hope the Senate is controlled by republicans.,23,2023-06-28 17:23:48
jpwjejl,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election","I’ve seen perma bans happen for bad mouthing white supremacists with the rule the admins claimed to be violated being the no negative/hateful rhetoric towards marginalized groups rule. 

This site is a joke and once third party support ceases I will cease to use it anymore (should stop, honestly)",23,2023-06-28 20:20:37
jpvihxd,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election",Ding ding ding,22,2023-06-28 16:28:24
jpvxeys,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election",It was called the fairness doctrine and already existed,22,2023-06-28 18:01:23
jpwf92f,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election","Her staff* is doing this for feinstein. Plenty of dems have called on her to resign, which absolutely never happens for republicans",21,2023-06-28 19:54:22
jpvwb3g,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election","Look at the actuarial tables. They likely will.

The one SS publishes:
https://www.ssa.gov/oact/STATS/table4c6.html",21,2023-06-28 17:54:28
jpvnw1a,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election","How about YOU explain, in your own words, how a corporation is a person and entitled to speak. You’re the one making the ridiculous claims here.",21,2023-06-28 17:02:04
jpwky0g,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election",How dare you compare Thomas to Pike,20,2023-06-28 20:30:14
jpwmt2b,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election",">Commander Pike

*Captain* Pike.",20,2023-06-28 20:42:00
jpwmyb6,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election","My mother who probably cares about ending abortion access more than any other issue hates McConnell now because trump hates McConnell. Doesn’t matter that McConnell over turned roe for republicans and trump really didn’t do anything meaningful as president, it doesn’t matter to trump says McConnell is a rino so he is.",20,2023-06-28 20:42:55
jpw0k9i,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election",lol at assuming the GOP care about credibility.,20,2023-06-28 18:21:14
jpw1em9,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election","the electoral college begs to differ, Biden only won by ~44k votes in the states that mattered, we need a national popular vote",20,2023-06-28 18:26:23
jpvo7sk,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election","They should retire so they have more time to hang out with their dear, dear friends.",19,2023-06-28 17:04:07
jpvdx3f,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election","I mean when they basically only have to show up to work for a few months a year and then can take lavish vacations paid for by other people, why bother retiring?",19,2023-06-28 15:59:17
jpvrwx5,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election","Then we need to pass legislation to restrict the ability of corporations to massage news to their purposes. I'm not just talking Fox, either. Mainstream media goes out of its way to attack/criticize progressive policies. Taking money out of politics is huge, but we really need to get money out of information as well. I would argue they do more damage that way than even election spending, and that's saying something.",19,2023-06-28 17:27:06
jpvy483,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election",They both have premium government healthcare and GOP sugardaddies they will live longer than most people.,19,2023-06-28 18:05:51
jpxk6r7,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election","He's never spoken much. It is staggering how few questions he asks compared to other judges, especially Supreme Court justices.  It's not dementia as much as it is a shocking lack of curiosity.",19,2023-06-29 00:35:09
jpwol0q,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election","Not only that, but the eventual decision on this would have ended up in the DC circuit (left leaning, so hopefully ruling he gets his seat) and the Court would have voted 4-4 (with Garland recusing himself), preserving the lower court ruling without setting precedent. 

A shame Obama didn't take this route...",18,2023-06-28 20:53:10
jpwsn5c,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election",She needs to go.,18,2023-06-28 21:19:26
jpx47r4,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election","No, Obama was going to nominate someone other than Garland.  He nominated Garland to prove that even a candidate the GOP was OK with wasn't going to be pushed forward.  McConnell was being his rasicst self when Garland didn't get a confirmation hearing because he was nominated by a black man.",18,2023-06-28 22:39:37
jpwy1hz,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election","I think the real reason she didn't retire under Obama with a Dem majority in the Senate was that she was afraid he would nominate a more middle of the road justice (which is exactly what he did with his Garland nomination), and she wanted the justice to be solidly liberal.  Once Clinton didn't win, she had no choice but to attempt to wait Trump out and she just barely didn't make it.",17,2023-06-28 21:55:38
jpxgv5k,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election","True, no on the record statements, but it didn't stop him from chatting away into Breyer's ear.",17,2023-06-29 00:10:48
jpxsalt,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election","Yeah I'll never not be upset about the pouting 2016 protesters.

I tried so hard to tell them, this isn't about Bernie vs Hillary, it's about the makeup of the Supreme Court for the rest of our lifetimes.

We could have had 6-3 liberal majority. Maybe reverse Citizens United and the gutting of Voting Rights Act/preclearance?",17,2023-06-29 01:37:06
jpvjybr,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election",Difference between then and now is that the bread and circuses of today are cheap and varied enough to keep people entertained and somewhat distracted from the fact that we're worse off now than during the Great Depression.,17,2023-06-28 16:37:35
jpwx6b7,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election","Nice little chain of islands, were sitting here in the middle of Minnesota, Michigan, and Illinois doing all these awesome things and were just barely hanging on from becoming a lawless waste like Florida by a D Governor veto. 

With the state supreme court makeup now and the recent supreme supreme court decision, i think things will get better for us, but it cant come soon enough. 

But we still elected fucking Ron Johnson...",17,2023-06-28 21:49:49
jpxbtlo,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election",Isn't it true he didn't speak in court for some 20+ years or maybe that wasn't counting whispering about vacay?,16,2023-06-28 23:34:32
jpwq071,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election","This already is basically the case, except instead of two dudes carrying him around it's just a bunch of bribes and boat trips controlling everything he does instead.",16,2023-06-28 21:02:12
jpxm4nt,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election",Deep cut,16,2023-06-29 00:49:45
jpw7f8a,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election","It still shocks me people don't realize this. In terms of popular support, Biden ran away with the 2020 election. In terms of how we count, 0.025% of votes cast made the difference.",16,2023-06-28 19:04:12
jpvqvz3,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election",I couldn’t imagine in a million years either of them retiring while there’s still some sweet grift to be made,15,2023-06-28 17:20:48
jpxrg3u,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election",And in 2004 everyone was dumb enough to think Bush could get himself out of that mess,15,2023-06-29 01:30:28
jpvdstx,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election",I agree. This is something nice to think about but I think this is mostly wishful thinking. Having said that both of them going away would be a good thing.,15,2023-06-28 15:58:31
jpwcr1f,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election","> soap box, ballot box, jury box, cartridge box.

The four boxes of liberty, to be used in that order.",15,2023-06-28 19:38:21
jpwygqf,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election",Life expectancy of a male in the top 1% wealth bracket in the USA is 87.3. Statistically they aren’t going anywhere unless a Republican is elected.,15,2023-06-28 21:58:31
jpwjlk0,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election",">To be completely fair, Democrats do this too, which makes a ton of sense. RGB should have retired under Obama, but of course hindsight is 20/20. 

How do you reconcile those two sentences?",14,2023-06-28 20:21:49
jpvo3qm,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election","i saw something last week about ""-box"" politics.  

soap box, ballot box, jury box, cartridge box.",14,2023-06-28 17:03:25
jpwmd3b,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election","I got banned once for suggesting I wished that Dolan Tramp cried from Bovid-91. 

Except I didn't say that, I said something similar... 

Anyway, I got banned because apparently I was inciting violence. I don't think they knew what the word ""violence"" meant, and I'm not sure they knew what the word ""incite"" meant either.",14,2023-06-28 20:39:14
jpw8zt5,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election",Natural Causes?,14,2023-06-28 19:14:21
jpwrn27,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election","Because it is, and always has been at the center of their coup. They've had that aim since the 80s, and just about every other appeal to democratic power was a lie designed to serve this long term goal.",14,2023-06-28 21:12:49
jpwnibo,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election","All the polling and conventional wisdom said that Hillary was a shoe-in for the win in 2016.  That Republicans would fold and accept Garland after she won.

Obama probably thought that forcing a seating would have caused the media to EXPLODE (which it would have they work for the republcians).  And possibly cost Hillary the election.

It was the wrong thing in the long run we know this now but I understand the logic behind the decision.",13,2023-06-28 20:46:25
jpvz4px,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election","As the other user said (I believe it's against this sub's policy to link names, otherwise I would), we had something in place called the Fairness Doctrine. Just another thing Ronald Reagan sabotaged. There are also policies in place in the UK, for example, that help keep reporting relatively fair and unbiased. Obviously any act or law would need to be instituted in such a way as to prohibit the ability of the state to control media messaging- I completely understand your skepticism. But there are very clear biases in our media, and constant editorializing that amounts to political meddling. We can absolutely crack down on that in a way that promotes a fairer, more objectively-focused media.",12,2023-06-28 18:12:18
jpwlr8i,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election","Up to a point.  We've all seen how fascists have exploited the legal gaps, but once emboldened, say by Donald Trump, they'll openly and boldly break the law.

For example, Jan 6th.  Laws alone will not restrain them.  Only consequences, like the death penalty will do that.",12,2023-06-28 20:35:25
jpx9tet,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election","Right, he only speaks because he wants to flex his seniority.",11,2023-06-28 23:20:06
jpvp5ku,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election",They are not going to retire unless a Republican wins again.  They’ll have to die during a democratic presidency and senate to replace them.,10,2023-06-28 17:10:03
jpwpoto,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election","If anyone is still on the fence about voting Biden, or voting at all, this should be a major selling point.  If you want money out of politics, you don’t allow Republicans to replace these guys with farther right justices that won’t touch Citizens United.",10,2023-06-28 21:00:09
jpvyvxj,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election",Gesundheit,10,2023-06-28 18:10:44
jpw0yoo,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election",Yes! Exactly. This is insane phrasing. The abused failed by not stopping the abuser! Shame on them lol like wut?,10,2023-06-28 18:23:41
jpx1dzf,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election","No need for him to even be there since you already know how he's going to rule before hand 99% of the time anyway. 

Whatever side the federalist society sides with he will rule that way.",10,2023-06-28 22:19:14
jpwk5ip,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election",Are we under the impression he's sitting in the galley?,10,2023-06-28 20:25:16
jpw3h5g,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election","Yep, i got banned from a sub and a warning from the reddit admins for describing the war crimes russia has committed in Ukraine.

They said I was inciting violence…",10,2023-06-28 18:39:19
jpy4mzg,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election","""This shit is boring long. Why so slooooow? Places to go, things to doo. My vote was already taken care of. Don't need to say. I know which way to vote before I know what I'm voting on. Yeah baby, who knows what they are voting on."" C.Thomas",10,2023-06-29 03:15:22
jpyebff,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election",I guess they would retired for this year. They will retired after they will be new republican president. They are really in to it to the point that they would retired.,9,2023-06-29 04:44:12
jpwaa5x,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election","The law coming down on them would be ideal

Unfortunately, they kind of are the law",9,2023-06-28 19:22:34
jpvrb7i,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election",We’re getting to a dangerous tipping point…,9,2023-06-28 17:23:25
jpvxi47,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election","I doubt that the GOP will repeat that argument if they win the Senate majority. They have already exhausted it, and it would lack credibility (if they had any) if they tried it again. I suspect that they will drop the pretense and claim something like “We have the power now, so we get to decide who will fill the Supreme Court vacancy.”",9,2023-06-28 18:01:56
jpwfdnb,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election",Oh slippery slope. I guess we should do nothing.,9,2023-06-28 19:55:10
jpw5f3x,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election",Somehow I got un shadow banned during reddits protest. I’m happy.,9,2023-06-28 18:51:33
jpwlkqs,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election","How so? Do you not think Democrats do this? Biden literally just did it. Just because RBG didn’t, doesn’t mean Democrats on the whole don’t. And people all over the place were calling for it, including Obama himself. If memory serves me correctly, RBG wanted to serve under a woman president (Hilary), so she waited.",9,2023-06-28 20:34:15
jpvg9no,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election","They’ll both wait to see who they can give the “W” to win the election - if they are unsuccessful, they won’t retire. Too much at stake for them to be laid bare in their corruption.",8,2023-06-28 16:14:21
jpw5o00,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election","This article is totally schizo. Lots of talk about the ramifications of a (D) prez getting to replace two justices, and then it drops a “there won’t be much change in the court regardless of what happens with these two.” Soooo…why even write about it, then?",8,2023-06-28 18:53:05
jpwl1be,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election","That's why they're ""hinting"" about retirement to motivate Republicans to vote.",8,2023-06-28 20:30:48
jpvssxq,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election","Isn’t that kind of what they do already, tho?",8,2023-06-28 17:32:38
jpwu9o6,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election",Your system is so broken to be honest,8,2023-06-28 21:30:17
jpwne0i,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election","Strange New Worlds is the best Star Trek show in 20 years.  Season 2 just started.  Season 1 is available on YouTube for free.
  
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQ51gV0t6yM",8,2023-06-28 20:45:39
jpwosa5,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election","To be more in line with the discussion, RBG did it right to the grave and fucked over Democrats for god knows how long. She should have retired when Obama was president. A big stain on her legacy, even if many don't want to admit it.",8,2023-06-28 20:54:27
jpwjvyu,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election",I’m not saying it’s BAD that Republicans and Democrats both do it. I’m saying it makes sense that they both do.,8,2023-06-28 20:23:37
jpwmur1,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election","Ha, yeah Reddit is a joke sometimes.

My last ban was because I reported a link as Spam.   Not kidding.  First time I'd reported anything in months, and apparently they considered it abusive reporting or something.   No idea why that was.   It just happened to be over the 2 day blackout, so that was kinda, oddly timed.

My ban before that was for mentioning that the GOP tried to murder Mike Pence on January 6th.   Apparently pointing out a publicly known fact was threatening violence (hey, that sounds similar) against a public figure.",8,2023-06-28 20:42:18
jpy3oy5,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election","""This Coke is for you, and this here too """,8,2023-06-29 03:07:20
jpwnoml,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election","I'm gonna take a guess that you were too young to follow politics in 2009, otherwise you'd remember McConnell was a full HALF DECADE from running the Senate back then. 

As for 6-3, well, we'll never know. There are much more prominent legal scholars than you or I that seem to think Roberts concern for his legacy would've at least given him great pause before casting the 5th vote.",8,2023-06-28 20:47:31
jpw4uok,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election","Got permanently banned today from an outfit sub and puppy sub (commented yesterday on both; outfit sub I was trying to be super positive about the hate this guy and then this girl were getting on their outfits and said a dog was ""adorable"") because I have interactions with some NSFW subs that deal with questions about sex haha, thought it was funny.",8,2023-06-28 18:48:01
jpx20xb,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election","The word “shall” in the Advise and Consent clause refers to the President, not Congress.

***The President shall*** *have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur;* ***and he shall nominate***, *and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls,* ***Judges of the Supreme Court***, *and all other Officers of the United States*",8,2023-06-28 22:23:44
jpwdzo0,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election",They’re floating this talk as a way to get Republicans out to vote.  They’ll die in office before they let a Democrat replace their seat.,7,2023-06-28 19:46:19
jpvbqd6,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election",Make it happen!,7,2023-06-28 15:45:20
jpxnfg0,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election",You also need Democratic control of the Senate.  Mitch McConnell has publicly stated that a Democratic President will never appoint another Justice as long as he controls the Senate.,7,2023-06-29 00:59:37
jpw4kke,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election",Tourist trip to the Titanic on a poorly constructed submarine?,7,2023-06-28 18:46:15
jpvrg8e,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election",They'll try. And they might do it- spite can be a powerful force for longevity. That's one of the myriad reasons we need to keep winning elections. Let them hold off on retiring. We can make sure it's all in vain.,7,2023-06-28 17:24:16
jpxv38t,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election","That’s a stupid assumption without even looking it up I know that: 

Reagan-Bush from 1981-1993 (R)

FDR-Truman 1933-1953 (D)

Harding-Coolidge-Hoover 1921-1933 (R) 

McKinley-Roosevelt-Taft 1897-1913 (R) 

The back and forth of 8 year termed presidents that happened from 1993-2017 is the exception in American history, not really the rule especially in the last 120ish years.",7,2023-06-29 01:58:38
jpwuplr,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election",Is that so nobody can gauge his dementia?,7,2023-06-28 21:33:13
jpy5w8n,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election",">since the remote arguments during the Covid WFH years he has started asking questions from the bench.

Apparently it's because he and Scalia aligned closely, and he almost never had questions that Scalia hadn't already asked.",7,2023-06-29 03:26:07
jpwl0xf,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election",I'm not arguing about accuracy here; I'm pointing out that your second sentence appears to directly contradict your first sentence.,7,2023-06-28 20:30:44
jpwm47t,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election","It was an extremely blatant power grab that we had no defenses for, and an election opportunity. Unlike Trump or most of MAGA, Mitch knew 'exactly' what he was doing and was enough of a bastard to do it.",7,2023-06-28 20:37:42
jpvy87f,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election",I'm implying that there might not be another Republican president.,7,2023-06-28 18:06:33
jpwsgf6,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election",Republican refusal to do their constitutionally mandated job.,7,2023-06-28 21:18:13
jpxilk7,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election","If she retired in 2013 like Obama asked her to he would have been able to appoint whoever he wanted since the Democrats controlled the Senate. It's worth noting that KBJ was on Obama's shortlist after Scalia died, but went with Garland to call the Republicans bluff.",7,2023-06-29 00:23:26
jpw5qlx,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election",I’m not saying the bans are all unjust just that they seem to not be in short supply. Especially on this sub if you call certain outlets disinformation.,7,2023-06-28 18:53:33
jpy8tx6,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election",I don't think he would have picked Garland had they controlled the senate. RBG should have left when they had control in his first few years.,7,2023-06-29 03:52:09
jpx9qns,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election",Republicans did not have a sound constitutional argument either.  There is nothing about “waiting for the next election” in the constitution either I can assure you.,7,2023-06-28 23:19:32
jpvqa3h,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election","> or pornhub

Unless you live in Utah.",7,2023-06-28 17:17:04
jpwep9p,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election","If democrats win in 2024 and 2028 there is a good chance of a 5/4 court by 2032.

While democrats should win, the public forgets easily and is wants change often, 2028 might be a hard sell.",6,2023-06-28 19:50:52
jpvdx65,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election",Retirement talk by who? Wishfull sane citizen? These Clerics will not be retiring anytime soon,6,2023-06-28 15:59:17
jpvi9cy,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election",Never going to happen. They get way too much billionaire sugar love.,6,2023-06-28 16:26:55
jpwkomo,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election",And they'll be replaced with someone in their late 40s with questionable qualifications who will proceed to sit on the court for the next three to four decades.,6,2023-06-28 20:28:34
jpvy76w,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election",Yea that’s my assumption. They saw how it backfired with RGB and will commit to whatever Republican wins.,6,2023-06-28 18:06:22
jpwlqy1,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election","I believe the assumption in the study you quoted was that a two-term president is **86% likely** ~~almost never (has never happened I think in practice)~~ replaced by a president of the same party. So the assumption is that Democrats will almost certainly lose the WH in 2028, even if they win in 2024.",6,2023-06-28 20:35:22
jpy8mcf,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election","> GOP pulled when Obama was nominating Garland. That was some low brow shit.

I'm going to guarantee if they control the senate during a DEM presidency, they will not pass through any SCOTUS judge regardless how far away the term is. It could be day #2 and they would deny him that pick for the entire 4 years. Bank on it.",6,2023-06-29 03:50:16
jpvvrz1,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election","We can’t do this.  Who polices, what are the criteria?  You know the communists used to review symphonies for anti soviet “tones”.  You can’t police this.  It WILL lead to disastrous abuse.",6,2023-06-28 17:51:10
jpxo7rg,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election","McConnell is 81, I doubt he'll make it to '28.",6,2023-06-29 01:05:42
jpwqtkl,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election","Yeah, like 'em or not, the GOP falls in line.",6,2023-06-28 21:07:28
jpxqcxa,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election",You should honestly do an AMA.,6,2023-06-29 01:22:08
jpw9nl6,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election","I made a joke about ------- people who slurp/chew with their mouth open, I even specifically pointed out that it was a joke, and I got a three day ban. I've been making terrible tasteless jokes on reddit for over a decade, this was the first time I've been banned for it.",6,2023-06-28 19:18:35
jpw28k3,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election",imagine buying stock in this,6,2023-06-28 18:31:33
jpw0qkk,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election","that may be a little exagerated, I havn't been forced to sell a child or send one to work yet to keep everyone fed, I think we aren't anywhere near the level of suffering seen in the great depression

Thats not to say we shouldn't still be working toward progress though, there's plenty wrong",6,2023-06-28 18:22:19
jpw2031,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election","Oh, I'm not counting on it. I'm going to be voting like my life depends on it and suggest everyone do the same. Still, it's something we can work towards.",6,2023-06-28 18:30:08
jpxh56b,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election",Went from Russ Feingold to that fascist dweeb Johnson. What a fail.,6,2023-06-29 00:12:51
jpwxud1,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election","Either enshrine them or ignore them.  Subjecting yourself to unofficial rules and 'niceties' only makes sense when everyone is doing it.   If one side takes a fat shit on them at literally every single opportunity then you are no longer trying to be moral or well-mannered, youre just disadvantaging yourself.

This idea pervades everywhere at so many levels.  The only reason republicans get away with their obnoxious hypocrisy is because they tell people to follow social rules that they themselves flagrantly ignore.  This is what flat earthers and fundamentalists and such do as well, they will sit there and literally fantasize about an apocalypse event in which everyone who doesn't agree with them gets their deserved death and eternity in hell, but then if you criticize them scream things like ""AD HOMINEM"" or talk about how immoral and unfair personal attacks are when theyre being criticized.

No one should feel beholden to unofficial 'rules' when dealing with people who entirely disregard them.  Call them out on it.  You are not 'taking the high ground' by continuing to self-impose these things on yourselves when dealing with people who don't.  Its just masochism.",6,2023-06-28 21:54:19
jpvzkpz,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election",they should be getting impeached and having every one of their rulings reviewed,5,2023-06-28 18:15:04
jpvwk7i,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election",Just a ploy to get the greasy and sketchy transactional political party known as “Christianity” to stick with trump.,5,2023-06-28 17:56:04
jpwrjcv,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election","No way those fuckers retire. They know the stakes. However, if they do desire to stay and their health is shit, well then they would be pulling a potential Ginsberg if a Democrat wins. Ginsberg should’ve retired when O was in his first term. All this talk about great she was (she was a trailblazer), her legacy was definitely tarnished by her decision to stay on.",5,2023-06-28 21:12:08
jpxh0r6,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election","Thomas is 75, Alito is 73.

If you take retirement off the table, this could be a self-solving problem by, what, 2030?

Ginsburg was 87 and arguably should have retired before her death. Scalia was 79. Breyer retired at 84, Kennedy at 82, O’Connor was 76, Souter was only 70.

So long as we have a D in office in '24 and '28 we should be good on the Supreme court.

Sotomayor is 69, Roberts is 68, Kagan is 63. So a ways to go there yet...",5,2023-06-29 00:11:56
jpwc0we,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election",death comes for us all... the mandatory retirement...,5,2023-06-28 19:33:44
jpwo8jm,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election",The most likely scenario is that Biden wins in 2024 and then a Republican wins in 2028 - it's rare to lose reelection and difficult to not switch parties after a full 8 year term with one party.,5,2023-06-28 20:50:59
jpwrnfv,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election",Thomas won't retire until the angel of death comes and drags him out. He gets off on being an asshole too much to stop.,5,2023-06-28 21:12:53
jpwp51m,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election",Weekend at Clarence’s,5,2023-06-28 20:56:40
jpw9jx3,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election",What else is there? Natural Causes?,5,2023-06-28 19:17:56
jpvlutq,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election",Please sir do not mistake me for a smart person.,5,2023-06-28 16:49:28
jpx0u7q,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election","The one to blame is Ginsburg herself.

She should have retired near the beginning of Obama's first term.",5,2023-06-28 22:15:18
jpyh6rd,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election",Wealthy sociopaths and their progeny have prevented most serious changes for most of our history.  It’s not surprising men ignorant of everything the last 250 years has seen didn’t make good rules for what they were ignorant to. Even if they had honest intent.,5,2023-06-29 05:13:44
jpxo6wn,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election","Incorrect. He had risen to Fleet Captain, not Commodore.",5,2023-06-29 01:05:31
jpx0xku,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election",This was Scalia’s seat.,5,2023-06-28 22:15:58
jpwu5kr,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election","I hated it as much as any other pro-democracy American, but I don't see how it was unconstitutional. Nothing in the Constitution requires the Senate to vote on nominees.",5,2023-06-28 21:29:31
jpx8kmp,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election","That's fair for the Garland nomination, though Ginsburg still bears blame for refusing to step down much earlier and causing the huge swing in SCOTUS seats now.

I also think the ""just seat Garland, Senate refused to do their jobs"" is not a sound constitutional argument.",5,2023-06-28 23:11:06
jpwa2ta,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election","Honestly I'm not sure why that function even exists, it seems like mental health theater to make people feel good about themselves but in reality most people just use it to troll.",5,2023-06-28 19:21:15
jpwg79z,14lcwhy,"Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election","In the process of creating a system that's hard to break, they also created a system that's almost impossible to fix as soon as anyone *did* manage to damage it.",5,2023-06-28 20:00:23