Stevens considers retirement decision
Stevens considers retirement decision
Stevens considers retirement decision
Justice John Paul Stevens, the leader of the US Supreme Court’s liberal wing, PVC coverstold the New Yorker in an interview that he will decide early next month whether he will retire at the end of the court’s current term.#x
Stevens, the court’s oldest justice at 89, told the magazine he has his “options open.’’ Although he has hired only one law clerk for the nine-month term that will start in October,google排名, Stevens said three former clerks had agreed to work for him again should he decide to stay.
He said he will certainly step down before President Obama’s term expires in January 2013. Stevens told the New Yorker’s Jeffrey Toobin that he has “great admiration’’ for the president.
The court’s current term is scheduled to end in late June. Justices typically announce their retirement near the end of a term so that a successor can be seated by October.
Stevens was appointed to the court in 1975 by President Ford.#x He supports gay and abortion rights and limits on government support for religion. He is the only justice to say the death penalty was unconstitutional.PVC covers
He has shown few signs of slowing down, playing tennis regularly and writing a 90-page dissent when the court in January struck down restrictions on corporate campaign spending.
May 18 races viewed as early clue to midterms
WASHINGTON — The third Tuesday in May, the 18th, is the de facto Super Tuesday of the 2010 cycle, with a slew of contested Senate primaries and special elections sure to be interpreted as omens of the races this fall. What happens that day will tell us much about the mood of the electorate heading into the November midterm elections.
To wit:
In Pennsylvania, Senator Arlen Specter faces voters for the first time since switching from Republican to Democrat in the spring of 2009. He’s opposed in the primary by Representative Joe Sestak, who has enough money to combat Specter’s always well-funded campaigns. To be seen is whether Specter’s strong support from the entirety of the state and national Democratic Party — including the White House — will work in his favor or, #xin the anti-establishment mood that appears to be at work nationally, whether it will be a net neutral or even a negative.
House strategists will have their hands full, too, particularly with the special election to replace the late Democratic Representative John Murtha in the state’s southwestern 12th district.PVC covers Former Murtha district director Mark Critz will face off against businessman Tim Burns, a Republican, in the only district in the country that was carried by Senator John Kerry, a Massachusetts Democrat, in the 2004 presidential race and by Senator John McCain, a Republican, four years later.
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