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Might a Justice Kagan speed or slow Justice Ginsburg's decision to retire?

By Douglas A. Berman

I am still not seeing much of unique interest for sentencing fans in this week's Kagan coverage (though I have not been able to keep up with even a portion of all the Kagan links at How Appealing).  In any event, while thinking about the future of SCOTUS, the question in the title of this post came to mind, and I thought it would make a good topic for a Friday discussion.  This New York Times piece from a few days ago noted that during her confirmation hearings in 1993, "Ruth Bader Ginsburg predicted that she would eventually be one of 'three, four, perhaps even more women on the high court bench.'?  There seems little doubt that Justice Ginsburg will be pleased that he prediction will finally become true if and when SG Kagan gets confirmed...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on May 14, 2010 (boomark / email).