WASHINGTON ¨C For more than a decade, audiences and interviewers have had one pressing question for Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg: When will you retire?
The question used to be whether the now 85-year-old liberal justice would let President Barack Obama choose her successor. Now it¡¯s whether President Donald Trump might, giving conservatives an even stronger hold on the court. Ginsburg, the court¡¯s oldest current member, has used a variety of practiced answers to the retirement question over the years. They all boil down to the same thing: She isn¡¯t ready to go.
On Sunday, Ginsburg reminded a New York audience that her former colleague Justice John Paul Stevens was 90 when he retired in 2010. ¡°My senior colleague, Justice John Paul Stevens, he stepped down when he was 90, so think I have about at least five more years,¡± Ginsburg said, according to a CNN report .
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