“With Republicans set to regain control of the White House and the Senate, the spotlight has turned to the Supreme Court and whether the two oldest justices may step down, paving the way for President-elect Donald Trump to lock down a conservative supermajority for years,” the New York Times reports.
“But the open speculation about the justices, Clarence Thomas, 76, and Samuel A. Alito Jr., 74, has prompted fissures in the conservative world, eliciting a striking rebuke from Leonard Leo, a leader of the Federalist Society and arguably the most powerful figure in the conservative legal movement.”
Said Leo: “No one other than Justices Thomas and Alito knows when or if they will retire, and talking about them like meat that has reached its expiration date is unwise, uninformed and frankly just crass.”
