{"id":12568,"date":"2009-05-01T15:33:43","date_gmt":"2009-05-01T15:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/justice_david_souter_to_retire\/"},"modified":"2009-05-01T15:33:43","modified_gmt":"2009-05-01T15:33:43","slug":"justice_david_souter_to_retire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=12568","title":{"rendered":"Justice David Souter to retire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Justice David Souter is planning to retire after nearly two decades on the Supreme Court, but his departure is unlikely to change its conservative-liberal split.<\/p>\n<p>President Barack Obama&#8217;s first pick for the high court is likely to be a liberal-leaning nominee, much like Souter.<\/p>\n<p>The White House has been told that Souter will retire in June, when the court finishes its work for the summer, a source familiar with his plans said Thursday night. The retirement is likely to take effect only once a successor is confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>The source spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak for Souter.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/apnews.myway.com\/article\/20090501\/D97TCS280.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Justice David Souter is planning to retire after nearly two decades on the Supreme Court, but his departure is unlikely to change its conservative-liberal split. President Barack Obama&#8217;s first pick for the high court is likely to be a liberal-leaning<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=12568\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-law-legal-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}