Which Supreme Court justice announced their retirement this week?
Merrick Garland Supreme Court nomination markets; on the PredictIt market, traders predicted that Srinivasan would be the nominee, trading as high as 97% on this outcome. Garland was widely seen as a leading contender for a nomination to the Supreme Court in the Obama administration following the announced retirement of Justice John Paul Stevens in 2010. In 2010, Obama interviewed Garland for a Supreme Court vacancy ultimately filled by Elena Kagan. At the time, Senator Orrin G. Hatch, Republican of Utah, publicly said that he had urged Obama to nominate Garland as "a consensus nominee" who would win Senate confirmation. On March 11, 2016 (five
Bill Clinton Supreme Court candidates Bill Clinton Supreme Court candidates President Bill Clinton made two appointments to the Supreme Court of the United States, both during his first term. On March 19, 1993, Associate Justice Byron White announced his retirement (and assumption of senior status), effective at the end of the Supreme Court's 1992-1993 term. President Clinton announced Ruth Bader Ginsburg as White's replacement on June 15, 1993, and she was confirmed by the United States Senate on August 3, 1993. On April 6, 1994, Associate Justice Harry Blackmun announced his retirement (and assumption of senior status), which ultimately took effect August 3, 1994. President