Souter to retire

Posted: Thursday, April 30, 2009 10:04 PM by Chuck Todd

From NBC's Pete Williams
According to various government officials, Justice David Souter plans to retire either at the end of this court term or once President Obama's choice to replace Souter is confirmed by the Senate. Look for more on the Souter retirement news tomorrow morning on TODAY.

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A sigh of relief. Not that he is retiring but that Obama is president and not McCain.

mexed, san antonio, texas (Sent Friday, May 01, 2009 2:16 AM)

i always told people that the most important issue in the last election were the court appointments, now here they come. bush and chaney put the screws to the religious right because if they had ended the wars mccain would be appointing these judges. now the right will have to wait 50 years to get what they want. the religious right gets what they deserve because they supported bush's wars and at the same time oppose abortion which does not add up.

nick bartow, lester, pa (Sent Friday, May 01, 2009 6:14 AM)

In my continuing efforts to save the GOP's time and energy, I present the following...

*ahem*

"NO ACTIVIST JUDGES!!!"

Thank you and have a nice day!

PS - The G-NO-P should be dancing a jig with Souter's expected retirement seeing as how you never liked the guy after he proved to not be the hawkish conservative y'all thought he was when he was nominated for the bench!

Pete - Albany, NY (Sent Friday, May 01, 2009 9:17 AM)

Dem's were successful in forcing him to delay retirement through Bush years so a conservative could not be appointed to the court.

Great manipulation of justice by the people friendly DNC.

Sounds like something the two party system brings our way all the time. We are the lucky ones.

Ed Crane, Middlebury, IN (Sent Friday, May 01, 2009 9:19 AM)

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