The Average Age Of The Supreme Court Is Close To A Record High
By Philip Bump January 10 at 7:51 AM
Now that it is an election year, it is time to play perhaps the most macabre game in Washington politics: When will the Supreme Court retire? And to answer that question, we really want to ask: How old are the justices on the Supreme Court?
The thing about time is that it is unrelenting. Five years ago at this point, shortly after Elena Kagan was nominated by President Obama, the average age of Supreme Court justices was just over 64. If you managed to nail down basic arithmetic, you'll deduce that the average age at this moment is just over 69.
Here's the age at the end of each year of every member of the Supreme Court since the dawn of the republic. At the far right is now, this year, with the slightly larger dots indicating the current court.
The average age at which justices retire, you may remember from this April 2014 piece we wrote, is 78.7. Right at this moment, three justices are over that mark: Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Antonin Scalia and Anthony Kennedy.
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