Breaking: Justice Stevens to Step Down
April 9th, 2010 admin
Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, the court’s oldest member and leader of its liberal bloc, is retiring. President Barack Obama now has his second high court opening to fill. We can’t say it’s all that surprising, but it’s huge news nonetheless. According to the AP (link not yet available), Stevens said Friday he will step down when the court finishes its work for the summer in late June or early July. He said he hopes his successor is confirmed “well in advance of the commencement of the court’s next term.” His announcement had been hinted at for months. It comes 11 days before his 90th birthday. Stevens…
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The Associated Press was one of the first, if not the first, news organizations to report this morning that Justice Stevens has announced his intention to retire after the Court begins its summer recess in late June or early July. We have collected below some of the many stories that have appeared so far today, organized loosely by subject. The...
Now that Justice John Paul Stevens has officially announced his retirement, we thought it may be useful to review the timetable surrounding last year’s retirement announcement by Justice David Souter and the nomination and confirmation of his successor, Justice Sonia Sotomayor. Souter’s retirement plans leaked to the public on April 30, 2009. ...
UPDATE in Washington, 4 p.m.: The statements about Justice Stevens’ retirement from each of the seven other members of the Court and former Justices Souter and O’Connor are now here . Dictated from the Chicago Midway Airport Terminal 2:05 p.m.: Closing one era and opening another, Justice John Paul Stevens notified President Obama on Friday...
The Supreme Court has announced that Justice Stevens is retiring. In a statement sent to President Obama, Justice Stevens wrote: “My dear Mr. President: Having concluded that it would be in the best interests of the Court to have my successor appointed and confirmed well in advance of the commencement of the Court’s next term, I shall retire...
“Stevens retirement gives Obama second Supreme Court pick; John Paul Stevens, the longest serving Supreme Court justice, plans to leave the bench in June; The Stevens retirement allows President Obama to name a second high court justice, opening the way for a likely confirmation battle”: Warren Richey of The Christian Science Monitor has...
Just so anyone out there doesn’t think this is some one-week-later April Fool’s Day joke, here’s Justice John Paul Stevens’s retirement letter , dated April 9, 2010. The letter reads: My dear Mr. President: Having concluded that it would be in the best interests of the Court to have my successor appointed and confirmed well...
The following essay on John Paul Stevens is by Rory Little , a professor of law at U.C. Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco. Little also serves as Reporter to the ABA Task Force to Revise the Criminal Justice Standards for the Prosecution and Defense Functions. Little worked with Justice Stevens in the 1984 Supreme Court Term. “After...
What a week! While many thought the past few days would be quiet ones on the SCOTUS front – we weren’t expecting opinions, the orders were few, and there were no arguments – things heated up quickly with the much-anticipated announcement by Justice Stevens that he would retire over the summer. Those of us reading the SCOTUS tea leaves have...
“Breyer to Step in as Chief Dissenter? Following Stevens’ Retirement, Breyer Could Assume His Position as Most Vocal Critic.” Lawrence Hurley has this article today in The Daily Journal of California.
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