Supreme Court's Stevens Mulls Retirement

(CBS/AP)  Justice John Paul Stevens, at 89 the Supreme Court's oldest member, says he will decide in the next month or so whether this term will be his last.

Stevens tells The New Yorker magazine that he definitely will retire in the next three years. His comments suggest that President Obama, whom Stevens says he admires, will likely nominate his successor.

The leader of the court's liberals, Stevens is the second oldest justice in U.S. history and fourth longest-serving. He says that breaking those records doesn't interest him.

Republican President Gerald R. Ford nominated Stevens to the court in 1975. Stevens turns 90 in April.

Author Jeffrey Toobin says in the New Yorker profile, which appears in the magazine's March 22 issue, that Stevens' departure will mark a significant shift in the culture of the Supreme Court.

"More than anything, his career shows how the Court has become a partisan battlefield," writes Toobin. "When Stevens leaves, the Supreme Court will be just another place where Democrats and Republicans fight."

[run2jazz2]

I would love to see the President consider a ****-eyed, humpback individual who studders when they speak and walks with a limp to the court who knows law and is proven. I am sick of Liberal and Conservatives White men and women and token minorities who use their ideology and interpretation of the law.

Get a real ugly person, I mean so ugly that when you look at them you want to slap them for being so hideous. I want them to be so intelligent and know the law that when they make a rulling they put them in a box to keep the seperate from the rest of the court.

[dakotaclark]

Who edited this article? There is a repeat.
Maybe CBS should find a way to let readers report typos?

"Stevens tells The New Yorker magazine that he definitely will retire in the next three years. His comments suggest that President Obama, whom Stevens says he admires, will likely nominate his successor.

The leader of the court's liberals, Stevens is the second oldest justice in U.S. history and fourth longest-serving. He says that breaking those records doesn't interest him.

Republican President Gerald R. Ford nominated Stevens to the court in 1975. Stevens turns 90 in April.

The New Yorker's profile of Stevens appears in its March 22 issue. Justice John Paul Stevens, at 89 the Supreme Court's oldest member, says he will decide in the next month or so whether this term will be his last.

Stevens tells The New Yorker magazine that he definitely will retire in the next three years. His comments suggest that President Obama, whom Stevens says he admires, will likely nominate his successor.

The leader of the court's liberals, Stevens is the second oldest justice in U.S. history and fourth longest-serving. He says that breaking those records doesn't interest him."

[gorgeousm]

SHOULD OUR ELDER U.S. JUDGES BE PERMITTED TO REMAIN 'JUDGING',
THEIR WISDOM AND LIFE EXPERIENCE NOTWITHSTANDING?

There should be an appropriate, applicable formula/test for us to determine whether or not a U.S. Supreme Court Judge is fit to serve his/her purpose - all politicking aside.

Is it possible for arriving at such 'JUDGE-FITNESS' decision-making APOLITICALLY and with PROBITY?

[edgy44]

Maybe we will get a non-federalist next go around. You can't expect change, when you keep promoting federal judges.

[4thGr8Depression]

edgy44

What is 'Change' for Americans? Change is anything but what is already there without regard to whether the replacement is better or not than what already there for Americans.

'Instant Gratification' Hard-At-Work!

I am sick and tired of 24x7 Campaign Mode in America. This makes our Democracy Inefficient and Ineffective to addressing any problem.

Only in a Democracy can a Good Marketing Campaign make Fools.