looking over booman's list of birth dates for supreme court justices i was surprised to see how old some of the individual justices are. i hadn't realized, for example, that scalia is in his 70s. and thomas, who for much of my adult memory was the "young justice" is now in the middle of the pack and in his 60s.
also, as booman says, if obama wins a second term things will get very interesting. how long can scalia hold out, waiting for a president who will appoint an ideological ally as a successor? essentially, he would be in the same position that the liberal justices were in during the bush years.
and it's a little depressing to see there is now a justice of the supreme court who was born in the same decade as me. i though they were all old people?
