Clarence Thomas says he’ll be on Supreme Court for another 30 years

By Katelyn Caralle

Published April 3, 2019 1:00pm ET

Clarence Thomas says he’ll be on Supreme Court for another 30 years — The justices of the U.S. Supreme Court gather for an official group portrait to include new Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch, top row, far right, Thursday. June 1, 2017, at the Supreme Court Building in Washington. Seated, from left are, Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy, Chief Justice John Roberts, Associate Justice Clarence Thomas, and Associate Justice Stephen Breyer. Standing, from left are, Associate Justice Elena Kagan, Associate Justice Samuel Alito Jr., Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor, and Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch. | (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Justice Clarence Thomas has been on the Supreme Court for 27 years – and now says he wants to serve another three decades.

“I’m not retiring,” Thomas, 70, a staunch conservative, said at Pepperdine University School of Law, Law360 reported. Thomas was responding to a question about who he would want to speak at his retirement party in 20 years.

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