Happy Friday, and welcome to another roundup of the week’s news about the judiciary. This week, we’re taking a look at part of my interview with retired Third Circuit Judge Kent Jordan, who talked a bit about the timing of his retirement announcement last May.
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‘Not a Political Motivation’
When Kent Jordan announced his plans to retire from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit last May, he broke from a growing trend in the judiciary.
Research has shown that federal judges are increasingly timing their retirement from active service for when the party that appointed them controls the White House.