I was in particular thinking about the mention of watching "Saving Private Ryan" on the "many occasions when things had become a little routine," which seems less about psychological stress to me and more about not really loving his job. But I can see where your interpretation is coming from, certainly. I still feel like, particularly since for the last eight years he had a President from his party, that if it's an ordeal, he shouldn't have kept doing it.
I'm not sure Thomas is even very comfortable with his own party (even neglecting the obvious disconnect between law and politics). He strikes me as rather alienated across the board.
But I find it hard to imagine that anyone who cared about the law and had made a career on it would want to resign from something like the Supreme Court simply on the basis that things had become a bit too stressful or the passion had gone out of it. That's not just a job, that's a vocation. And you don't stop doing it just because you don't have a spring in your step all the time.
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But I find it hard to imagine that anyone who cared about the law and had made a career on it would want to resign from something like the Supreme Court simply on the basis that things had become a bit too stressful or the passion had gone out of it. That's not just a job, that's a vocation. And you don't stop doing it just because you don't have a spring in your step all the time.
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