The Atlantic‘s political blog is reporting here that a day after he announced his impending retirement May 1, Justice David Souter spoke at an Oxford University alumni luncheon in Washington, D.C., along with Justice Stephen Breyer. After the talk, blogger Jeannette Lee asked Souter if he would have retired now if Republican candidate John McCain had been elected last November instead of Barack Obama.
“Probably,” was Souter’s reported answer. He added that he was nearing 70 years old, and had watched other justices wait to leave until their 80s, when “they have nothing left to retire to. I didn’t want that to be me.”
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