For years, conservative Americans have watched Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas stand as two of the last immovable pillars on a Supreme Court constantly targeted by the Left. Their decades of service have shaped landmark rulings and restored the Constitution’s original meaning in ways that infuriate Washington’s permanent political class. Now, the same D.C. insiders who never wanted a conservative Court majority in the first place have been quietly orchestrating a new scheme: forcing both justices into early retirement. But this week, President Donald Trump delivered a blunt message that blew their plan apart.
Behind closed doors, Republican establishment figures — the type who smile on camera but operate like Beltway lobbyists behind the scenes — have been floating the idea of nudging the two oldest conservative justices toward the exits. Their goal is simple and self-serving: swap Alito, 75, and Thomas, 77, for younger judges who could sit for decades, but only when the Senate is under GOP control.
It was a strategy crafted by people who think Supreme Court justices can be treated like chess pieces. Some pundits even began acting like the retirements were already scheduled. Conservative analyst Ed Whelan predicted Alito would step down “in the spring of 2025” and Thomas would follow “in the spring of 2026.”¹ Not long after Trump’s election, aspiring Justice Department official Mike Davis triumphantly posted online that “Justice Sam Alito is gleefully packing up his chambers.”² The political class, as usual, mistook their own wishful thinking for reality.
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