Steve Benen is a producer for 'The Rachel Maddow Show,' the editor of MaddowBlog and an MSNBC political contributor. He's also the bestselling author of 'The Impostors: How Republicans Quit Governing and Seized American Politics.'
Shortly before Iowa’s presidential caucuses, Donald Trump boasted about the three far-right jurists he added to the U.S. Supreme Court during his term, but his rhetoric wasn’t entirely retrospective. In a second term, the former president promised, he’d add to his record with new appointees. As it turns out, President Joe Biden has a similar focus. The Hill reported: In fact, the Democratic incumbent had quite a bit to say about the issue yesterday.
Several years ago, a study in the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy found that the average retirement age for a U.S. Supreme Court justice is roughly 79.
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