Molly Hemingway

He was able to incorporate all the things that they cared about without making them feel like, you know, including what someone else wanted took things too far.

And so you saw that in that masterful, I mean, it was a landmark decision.

It's going to be remembered as one of the great decisions to come out of the court is that Dobbs decision.

Once people realized I was writing this big treatment of Justice Alito, they kept on asking me constantly, do you think he's going to retire?

And I would always say, quite honestly, I don't think he's going to.

There was reporting last week from both CBS and Fox News that he's not going to retire.

That matches with my understanding.

Justice Thomas has said that he's headed out feet first.

Whether that actually happens or not depends.

you know, is up to him.

But I would also remind people that there are three Republican appointed justices in their 70s.

And the third one is actually the second longest serving justice on the court.

And that's the chief justice, John Roberts.

So even though we've got word that Thomas and Alito are not retiring, it's within the realm of possibility that you will still have a retirement at the end of this term.

Well, historically, the court has had a lot of different opinions among the members, but they usually constrain themselves to just saying what they want to say in their opinions and dissents, some of which can get quite harsh.

The difference that we've seen recently are some of these temper tantrums or public statements undermining their colleagues or undermining the integrity of the court itself.

I do think that the liberal justices could learn from the conservative justices in how to handle being in that very frustrating position of being in a minority on the court.

Conservatives had to deal with that for literally decades, and they didn't respond by trashing each other publicly or undermining the integrity.

I think the left needs to learn that as well.

Thank you so much.