Ginsburg: justices should stay if able to work


December 17, 2013 at 4:00p.m.

Ginsburg: justices should stay if able to work

RESTON, Va. (AP) — Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said today that Supreme Court justices should work as long as they can and shouldn’t manipulate their retirement so a like-minded president can appoint their successor. Some liberals have recently called on the 80-year-old Ginsburg to retire so that President Barack Obama can choose her replacement. If she stays beyond his term, it would leave open the possibility that a Republican would name the liberal justice’s successor.