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In the News: U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens Retires
04/12/10
On April 9, 2010, U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens announced that he plans to step down when the Court’s current term ends in late June or early July. The Court’s oldest member at 89, Stevens began his tenure in 1975. He has generally sided with the Court’s liberal members in cases dealing with contentious issues.
Stevens may be best remembered for his scathing dissent in Bush v. Gore, the politically charged case in which the Court halted the recounting of disputed ballots in Florida and declared George W. Bush the winner of the 2000 presidential election. “Although we may never know with complete certainty the identity of the winner of this year’s Presidential election, the identity of the loser is perfectly clear,” Stevens wrote. “It is the Nation’s confidence in the judge as an impartial guardian of the rule of law.”
Read the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in BUSH v. GORE