Mollie Hemingway

I'll leave it at that.

Wait, can you say that again?

I would not say it's outside the realm of possibility that there will be a retirement at the end of this term, even if it's not going to be Justice Alito or Justice Thomas.

Well,

And let's just point out, too, a lot of the reasons why people are focusing on Justices Thomas and Alito is because they are the two oldest members, the Republican appointed members of the court.

But Justice Roberts, Chief Justice Roberts, is also in his 70s.

And so if people want to speculate about people retiring, I mean, David Souter retired when he was younger than Chief Justice Roberts.

He had served—

I think less long, about the same time as Chief Justice Roberts has.

So I will also say that being that Thomas and Alito are the most consistently conservative or libertarian justices on the court, conservatives who want to replace them should maybe seek other people who might be better to replace and improve.

Well, in my book, I go through each of the justices and how their jurisprudence compares with Justice Alito's.

And Chief Justice Roberts, you kind of have to understand at least some of his frustration.

He's the only one of the Republican appointed justices who flat out admits he doesn't really have a judicial philosophy when he comes onto the court.

He proves that when he

saves Obamacare by rewriting the law.

But his big overarching goal as Chief Justice has been to get the justices to all kind of work together, to have more opinions from the court being handed down as opinions from the court rather than everybody writing their own opinion or concurrence or dissent.

And instead, you know, things have kind of

gotten a little harried recently, right?

You've had the leak of the Dobbs decision, you had just this weekend, another leak dating back to 2016 that was totally unnecessary and gratuitous.

You have, you know, in my book, I tell the story about how some of the justices