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In the News: Obama Remarks on the Retirement of Justice Stevens
04/09/10
This afternoon U.S. President Barack Obama remarked on Justice John Paul Stevens’s announcement of retirement from the Supreme Court. He commended the liberal justice for his years of service to the country as well as his judicial restraint. Obama briefly outlined qualities he would look for in appointing a successor, noting that his appointee will be “someone who, like Justice Stevens, knows that in a democracy, powerful interests must not be allowed to drown out the voices of ordinary citizens.” Obama then paid tribute to those who were killed in a mining explosion in West Virginia last week.