Clarence Thomas says he's not retiring for 30 years
by Katelyn Caralle
| April 03, 2019 09:00 AM
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas says there's nothing to rumors he's considering retiring after more than 27 years on the bench.
“I’m not retiring,†Thomas, a leading conservative jurist, said while speaking at Pepperdine University School of Law’s annual dinner last weekend, Law360 reported. Thomas, 70, was responding to a question about who he would want to speak at his retirement part in 20 years.
Even when the moderator, Pepperdine’s incoming president James Allan Gash, expanded the retirement timeline to 30 years in the future, Thomas did not budge. That would bring Thomas up to an even 100 years old if still on the bench, and would at that point be its longest-serving member by far.
There is no evidence that Thomas was considering retiring from the Supreme Court. But some legal analysts have speculated that he could leave the bench while President Trump is still in the White House and could appoint a conservative justice to the seat he now holds.
Thomas was nominated by President George H. W. Bush n 1991 when Thurgood Marshall, a legendary liberal, announced his retirement.
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