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March 14th, 2009, 10:07 PM
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.99c75c577fa1a698c1689adb0e00844 5.fc1&show_article=1
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, seen here in February 2009, has hinted at a po...
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has hinted at a possible vacancy "soon" at the US Supreme Court, without indicating who would be leaving.
Speaking Friday at New England Law Boston's annual "Law Day," Ginsburg told students that the nine justices only take pictures together when a new member joins the high court.
"We haven't had any photos for some time, but surely we will soon," she said.
"The dynamic is a little different when someone leaves."
Ginsburg, who turns 76 on Sunday, declined to elaborate on her comments and did not take questions from reporters at the event.
She underwent surgery for pancreatic cancer in early February but has returned to the bench.
Despite speculation that she might leave the court, Ginsburg has on several occasions expressed her intention to remain on the court for several more years.
Only the second woman to serve on the Supreme Court, she is one of five justices who are over 70 years old. Justice John Paul Stevens, the most liberal of the justices, is the oldest at 88. He turns 89 next month.
Stevens, Ginsburg or fellow liberal justice David Souter, 69, have been expected possibly to retire soon, and observers are gearing up for appointments of politically progressive judges to the bench to replace the older liberals sitting on it today.
Although Stevens has reportedly hired law clerks for the next term that begins in October, Souter has not.
The nine justices are appointed for life.
Currently four conservatives, four liberals, with the moderate Anthony Kennedy holding the middle ground, compose a balance President Barack Obama, a Democrat, is expected to sustain.
Nominated in 1993 by president Bill Clinton, Ginsburg is a pillar of the progressive wing of the court.
too bad she could not have been replaced when Bush was in office. IMO she puts her personal thoughts ahead of the constitution consistently.
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, seen here in February 2009, has hinted at a po...
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has hinted at a possible vacancy "soon" at the US Supreme Court, without indicating who would be leaving.
Speaking Friday at New England Law Boston's annual "Law Day," Ginsburg told students that the nine justices only take pictures together when a new member joins the high court.
"We haven't had any photos for some time, but surely we will soon," she said.
"The dynamic is a little different when someone leaves."
Ginsburg, who turns 76 on Sunday, declined to elaborate on her comments and did not take questions from reporters at the event.
She underwent surgery for pancreatic cancer in early February but has returned to the bench.
Despite speculation that she might leave the court, Ginsburg has on several occasions expressed her intention to remain on the court for several more years.
Only the second woman to serve on the Supreme Court, she is one of five justices who are over 70 years old. Justice John Paul Stevens, the most liberal of the justices, is the oldest at 88. He turns 89 next month.
Stevens, Ginsburg or fellow liberal justice David Souter, 69, have been expected possibly to retire soon, and observers are gearing up for appointments of politically progressive judges to the bench to replace the older liberals sitting on it today.
Although Stevens has reportedly hired law clerks for the next term that begins in October, Souter has not.
The nine justices are appointed for life.
Currently four conservatives, four liberals, with the moderate Anthony Kennedy holding the middle ground, compose a balance President Barack Obama, a Democrat, is expected to sustain.
Nominated in 1993 by president Bill Clinton, Ginsburg is a pillar of the progressive wing of the court.
too bad she could not have been replaced when Bush was in office. IMO she puts her personal thoughts ahead of the constitution consistently.