{"id":27,"date":"2003-06-13T08:01:42","date_gmt":"2003-06-13T13:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/27.html"},"modified":"2003-06-13T08:01:42","modified_gmt":"2003-06-13T13:01:42","slug":"about-that-supreme-court-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/about-that-supreme-court-retirement\/","title":{"rendered":"About that Supreme Court retirement&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I mentioned earlier this week that the media had practically planned Chief Justice William Rehnquist&#8217;s retirement party. One foot was already out the door.<\/p>\n<p>Today, however, we get word from USA Today&#8217;s Joan Biskupic that there are plenty of signs that Rehnquist&#8217;s imminent departure, rumored to be literally just two weeks away, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/washington\/2003-06-12-court-usat_x.htm\">may have been exaggerated<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[The justice who is the focus of most of the retirement talk seems in no hurry to exit the stage,&#8221; USA Today reported, adding that Rehnquist has &#8220;hired a staff for the court&#8217;s next annual term&#8221; and &#8220;scheduled a hearing on a key campaign-finance dispute for Sept. 8,&#8221; indications that suggest the 78-year-old chief justice might not be retiring quite yet.<\/p>\n<p>So how does one interpret these developments? Simply put, you don&#8217;t. There may be three retirements in the next year and a half or there could be none. Time will tell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I mentioned earlier this week that the media had practically planned Chief Justice William Rehnquist&#8217;s retirement party. One foot was already out the door. Today, however, we get word from USA Today&#8217;s Joan Biskupic that there are plenty of signs that Rehnquist&#8217;s imminent departure, rumored to be literally just two weeks away, may have been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}