{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "You think Justice Thomas retires to get replaced before the election?  If Trump loses, I suppose the Senate would prioritize...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/185118331968/", "html": "<p>You think Justice Thomas retires to get replaced before the election?<br/></p><p>If Trump loses, I suppose the Senate would prioritize nothing more than replacing him in the lame duck, I\u2019m sure the Dems would try to stall but the Senate GOP\u2019s more united with 2 more seats of buffer since Kavanaugh but still 2 months isn\u2019t much room for error</p><p>\u2018course if you go before the election, I hear the states are really pushing <i>Roe</i>-killers to get decided by July 2020 and I question just how much bandwidth the system has to handle Supreme Court politics during election season</p><p>Now I suppose the bank shot would be for him to resign in time for those cases to be 4-4 pushes, do the replacement nomination in the shadow of that to actually resolve a bit down the road but that might be a bit too cute<br/></p>"}