Maybe they expect Bader-Ginsburg to retire.
Maybe they expect Bader-Ginsburg to retire.
I think she’s 83 or 84 years old. It’s questionable if she will serve out the next four years.
Anthony Kennedy is 80, I think?
Point is, the liberal group on the court, as a group, are older than the conservatives, so it’s more likely we’ll see some of them retire than conservatives.
In eight years, Obama was able to appoint enough judges in the lower federal courts, so that as of now, fully 1/3 of all federal court judges were appointed by Obama. The next four years of Trump can help turn that around. There are always vacancies occurring in the lower courts. But they don’t make the news very often. But we should all be aware that the president appoints those judges as well as Supreme Court justices.