Justice Stevens Likely To Retire This Month Says CNN’s Jeffrey Toobin

Rumors have been swirling that 89-year-old John Paul Stevens will be retiring from his position as Supreme Court Justice, due in large part to statements Stevens made both in today’s New York Times article and a recent interview in Washington Post. Though Stevens has not made any declarations about leaving immediately and has acknowledged the difficulties of filling a Supreme Court seat before midterm elections, CNN’s Jeffrey Toobin (who interviewed Stevens for the New Yorker) believes that the Justice will do so before his 90th birthday…which is coming up in less than three weeks.

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