On a related note, as much as I would miss them, I suppose I do kinda wish that Justices Thomas and Alito would consider retiring while we can be sure of them. Justice Sotomayor is diabetic, and--nothing against her personally--I'd certainly be happy to see her take up a happy retirement in good health. Unfortunately, we're stuck with KBJ for awhile... Kagan I may disagree with, but she at least often seems to be more-or-less reasonable...though my opinion here doesn't matter much, as I'm not a lawyer and don't even follow the arguments or read the opinions carefully anymore...who's got the time?
Anyway.
Even if I sway back toward the (center-)left someday, I'd hope I'd continue to see the importance of a conservative, more-or-less originalist or textualist Court.
Ideally, of course, Trump will calm down a bit and we'll get Vance or DeSantis or someone comparable in '28. But we can't bank on that, obviously.
Say what you will about Cocaine Mitch, he got us Gorsuch instead of Garland. I tend to be uncomfortable with power politics...but when so much is at stake, I'll learn to live with it.
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