The new Supreme Court term is getting underway less than a month before Election Day.
And anytime a presidential election nears, talk of retirements on the court grows.
Former Justice Stephen Breyer, who was one of three liberal members, was the last to retire in 2022. He was 83 at the time.
His retirement allowed President Joe Biden to appoint Ketanji Brown Jackson, who became the first Black woman to serve in the lifetime role.
Although the data is mixed about the influence of politics on the decision to retire, Northeastern legal scholars say that there is an element of strategy that takes into account existing and future political conditions that would dictate succession planning for a seat on the Supreme Court.
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