The Plot Thickens
Justice Thomas and "imagined resignations."
I'm really starting to wonder if there will be a resignation. If Rehnquist is really doing well enough to stay on, he will stay on. He knows that justices that leave the Court, well, die. If you don't have a reason to get out of bed everyday and be on top of your game, the body just gives out. He might not want to go out on the sour note that has been this term. I wouldn't blame him. Even with Thomas' statement, O'Connor not retiring is hard for me to accept. She hasn't hired a third clerk, her husband is very ill, and she loves Arizona. But there is something that could keep all of them on. If all nine stay on until March 2006, they will be the longest sitting single panel of the Supreme Court. Maybe they're going for the record.
I'm really starting to wonder if there will be a resignation. If Rehnquist is really doing well enough to stay on, he will stay on. He knows that justices that leave the Court, well, die. If you don't have a reason to get out of bed everyday and be on top of your game, the body just gives out. He might not want to go out on the sour note that has been this term. I wouldn't blame him. Even with Thomas' statement, O'Connor not retiring is hard for me to accept. She hasn't hired a third clerk, her husband is very ill, and she loves Arizona. But there is something that could keep all of them on. If all nine stay on until March 2006, they will be the longest sitting single panel of the Supreme Court. Maybe they're going for the record.
