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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