SUPREME COURT NOTEBOOK: Election-year retirement unlikely
WASHINGTON (AP) ” The last time a Supreme Court justice announced his retirement in a presidential election year, most of the current justices were too young to vote.It was 1968, and things didn’t work out as planned. The nomination to replace Chief Justice Earl Warren failed in that turbulent year, and no justice has retired in an election year since.The pattern is not likely to be broken in 2020, despite persistent chatter that Justice Clarence Thomas could give President […]
