Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, the subject of intensifying speculation about a potential retirement before the midterm elections, is not expected to leave the bench this year, sources close to the justice have told ABC News.
Alito, 76, has been hiring clerks for next term and intends to continue serving into at least 2027, the sources who have spoken to Alito told ABC.
The court’s most senior member – 77-year-old conservative Justice Clarence Thomas – is also expected to remain on the bench.
Fair enough, still the norm seems to be to cling to the seat till deaths cold hands pry you from it.
Well, yeah, it is a lifetime appointment. It, quite literally, takes an Act of Congress to be fired from it. So they can hold to the job as long as they want.