July 15, 2005
A Political Scientist's Timely Take on the Politics of Retirement From the U.S. Supreme Court
Artemus Ward, assistant professor of political science, Northern Illinois University
"This is terrible." According to Newsweek, that is what U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor said at a party on election night 2000, when Al Gore seemed to have won. Her husband reportedly went on to say that Justice O'Connor wanted to retire but wouldn't do so if Mr. Gore would be the one to choose her replacement. In his 2003 book, Deciding to Leave: The Politics of Retirement From the
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