Rehnquist retiring
--posted by Tony Garcia on 7/08/2005
Drudge Report is reporting "BUSH GETS TWO:
REPORT: REHNQUIST RETIRES; TO BE ANNOUNCED TONIGHT"
UPDATE: 4:12 PM
Ah, rumors are such great things. O'Connor is retiring...this we know. The rumor is that Rehnquist will retire soon and Ginsburg may retire by year's end. A Yahoo article (unlinked since they change their stories) added the following:
Justice John Paul Stevens, who is 85 and healthy, may be going, the speculation went. Stevens is the court's liberal leader and would seem an unlikely prospect with a Republican in the White House and GOP-controlled Senate.
He also has already started hiring law clerks to work for him in 2006-07. That could be a sign that he's sticking around for a while. Or that he's sneaky and wants to keep reporters off his trail.
One can only hope...but I doubt it.
2 Comments:
I have a friend who's working on the Court right now, and the word is that Stevens is actually pretty sick. Who knows?
Not to wish ill on anyone, but we can only hope that Stevens is leaving soon.
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