Imagine being Alito. A total sell-out, his entire life spent in advocacy of a right-wing political takeover of the judiciary, and broke. What a dope.
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So, yes, it would be terrible.
There is no world in which he retires now and is not replaced before the election. Itâs the entire reason heâd even consider it.
If Alito retires itâll be the biggest egg on Democratic faces. It would highlight just how much the Supreme Court isnât independent at all butâs been evolved to be captured by and to have become another arm of the political parties.
Of course itâs that already, but there wouldnât even be the artifice.
IDK if mcconnell rams through someone it increases the chances that we get justices 10 and 11 by⌠some percent⌠right?
Beyond the real world implications of this, the worst part will be watching a bunch of smarmy libs playing clips of Mitch in 2016 saying that a justice canât be appointed in an election year as if their hypocrisy matters in any way.
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With President Biden? I canât imagine that happening.
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If you consider 0 to be âsome percentâ, then yes, yes it does.
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Yeah exactly. Like naked hypocrisy means anything at all to the right.
That will be extremely annoying.
If Alito retires and is replaced by Trump, that will be the last straw and Democrats will expand the court when Biden is elected.
Wow, I managed to type that with a straight face.
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I have edited my post for posterity.
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I disagree. There are just too many old institutionalist Democrats. Bernie wouldnât even get rid of the filibuster to achieve his goals. They still live in the old world of comity, handshake deals, good faith, etc.
Itâs really going to take a new guard to envision a new way of doing things
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We are drawing live to Trump tapping an improperly vetted disaster that even a highly partisan GOP Senate canât confirm.
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Sorry, I didnât make my sarcasm clear enough. I agree with everything in this post.
lol, it could be Kushner and they would push it through.
Yeah they have to not fuck up under a ton of pressure.
My bad 
I donât think its possible to really be broke, any judge probably retires with a pension of at least 100,000 and I would assume a SC judge is looking at upwards of 200,000 to 300,000. For life. Indexed to inflation.
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Donât act like he wonât be the only âemployeeâ of some think tank paying him $500k/yr when he âretires.â His kids will have whatever they want for life too.
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Hia disclosures say he has up to $6M, along with a 40 year federal pension. Though he would have easy access to $1M+/yr for his picture on a website and the occasional client meeting.