Ruth Bader Ginsburg Speculates About Future Retirement From Supreme Court

Don't worry, she thinks she's still got a few years left on the bench.

onJuly 29, 2019 at 12:12 PMJuly 29, 2019 at 11:21 AM

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I’ve always said I’ll stay on this job as long as I can do it full steam. At my age — 86 — you have to take it year by year. I was okay this last term and I expect to be okay next term. And then after that, we’ll have to see.

— Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, in comments made about her health and any possible retirement plans she may have, during Duke Law’s “Conversation with Ruth Bader Ginsburg,” an event associated with the school’s D.C. Summer Institute on Law and Policy, which is now in its seventh year.

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