Mollie Hemingway

It's like a celebration.

He says it's like their Easter, their highest holy day.

And so we get to this great day, and not only does I-330 not vote to affirm the benefactor, but in fact there are a ton of people.

And it's so disorienting to him to realize that there's this huge resistance movement.

And the power that they had was in part by making people think that nobody would ever deviate, realizing that, in fact, a huge percentage do.

That's what helps topple the system or begin to potentially topple the system.

So people have been speculating that Justice Alito is definitely going to retire at the end of this term.

They've been doing this for about a year.

And I keep telling people I don't actually see that happening.

I don't know for sure anything is possible, but the reporting that just came out from Fox News and also Jan Crawford at CBS, it matches with my understanding as well.

He's not inclined to retire and people should be prepared for that.

I don't know.

I do think there's this thing with Justice Alito in that he's clearly the person on the court who least—

enjoys the trappings of having that position of authority.

And so people, I think, frequently perceive that as his just disdain for Washington DC.

That's real.

He really does not think Washington DC is as great of a place as people seem to think it is.

Now, I do want to say— One of the many things we love about him.

I do want to say that people should not assume that just because the word is that Justice Thomas and Justice Alito are not retiring, that that means there will be no retirements.

I, again, don't have inside information, but I would not put it outside the realm of possibility that there might be a retirement at the end of this term.