{"id":5216,"date":"2025-04-11T12:19:27","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T12:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/former-3rd-circuit-judge-kent-jordan-on-wanting-an-apolitical-retirement\/"},"modified":"2025-04-11T12:19:27","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T12:19:27","slug":"former-3rd-circuit-judge-kent-jordan-on-wanting-an-apolitical-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/former-3rd-circuit-judge-kent-jordan-on-wanting-an-apolitical-retirement\/","title":{"rendered":"Former 3rd Circuit Judge Kent Jordan on Wanting an Apolitical Retirement\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div data-v-e97bc92c=\"\">\n<div data-v-e97bc92c=\"\">\n<p><i>Happy Friday, and welcome to another roundup of the week\u2019s news about the judiciary. This week, we\u2019re 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.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>  <!----> <!----> <!----><\/p>\n<div data-v-e97bc92c=\"\">\n<p><i>As always, please reach out to me at [email\u00a0protected] with any tips or feedback and follow me on X at @AvalonZoppo or Bluesky at<\/i> <i>@avalonzoppo.bs<\/i>ky.social.<\/p>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\"><b>\u2018Not a Political Motivation\u2019<\/b><\/h2>\n<p>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.<\/div>\n<p> <!----> <!----> <!----> <!----><\/p>\n<div data-v-e97bc92c=\"\">\n<p>Research <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.com\/2024\/06\/28\/whos-more-likely-to-politically-time-retirement-conservative-liberal-or-moderate-judges\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><u>has shown<\/u><\/a> that federal judges are increasingly timing their retirement from active service for when the party that appointed them controls the White House.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <!----> <!----> <!----> <!----><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Friday, and welcome to another roundup of the week\u2019s news about the judiciary. This week, we\u2019re taking a look at part of my interview with retired Third [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5217,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1884,5472,610,5470,423,5469,5473,5471],"class_list":["post-5216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-3rd","tag-apolitical","tag-circuit","tag-jordan","tag-judge","tag-kent","tag-retirement","tag-wanting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}