Arlen Specter Quotes

There has been a generalization that justices like to retire at the end of a term so as not to disrupt the work of the court... if you were to have a 4-4 court, with its proclivity for being evenly divided, you wouldn't have decisions for the cutting edge of all the questions.

- Arlen Specter

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