Supreme Court judge set to resign
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April 5, 2010, Monday
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UNITED States Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, a leader of the court's liberal wing, will decide soon whether to retire after 35 years on the court, two newspapers on Saturday quoted him as saying.
Stevens, 89, has hinted for weeks that retirement may be at hand but has said he has not made up his mind. In interviews published in the New York Times and Washington Post, he discussed his possible retirement.
He plans to leave either this year or next, the Post reported, quoting Stevens as saying, "I will surely do it while he's still president," referring to Democratic President Barack Obama.
His retirement would allow Obama to make a second appointment to the court in a year, but it was not expected to change the court's ideological makeup. The Senate confirmed Obama's selection of appeals court judge Sonia Sotomayor for the high court last summer.
Stevens is a defender of civil liberties and wrote the 2006 ruling that struck down military tribunals for detainees held at the US military base at Guantanamo Bay.
Stevens, 89, has hinted for weeks that retirement may be at hand but has said he has not made up his mind. In interviews published in the New York Times and Washington Post, he discussed his possible retirement.
He plans to leave either this year or next, the Post reported, quoting Stevens as saying, "I will surely do it while he's still president," referring to Democratic President Barack Obama.
His retirement would allow Obama to make a second appointment to the court in a year, but it was not expected to change the court's ideological makeup. The Senate confirmed Obama's selection of appeals court judge Sonia Sotomayor for the high court last summer.
Stevens is a defender of civil liberties and wrote the 2006 ruling that struck down military tribunals for detainees held at the US military base at Guantanamo Bay.
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