The Indiana Law Blog

Law - Many stories today relate to Chief Justice Rehnquist's illness

For instance, here are some quotes from a story today by David G. Savage of the LA Times:

It has been a decade since a justice stepped down — the longest period of stability since the early 1800s — and now eight of the nine justices have passed the traditional retirement age of 65.

Some, including Rehnquist, are getting old even by the standards of the Supreme Court. Justice John Paul Stevens, the senior liberal, who has survived prostate cancer, will be 85 in the spring.

The prospect that one or more justices will step down in the next four years fires up — and also frightens — conservative and liberal activists.

Links to a number of the stories are collected here by Howard Bashman of How Appealing.

Posted by Marcia Oddi at October 26, 2004 08:33 AM