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How Many Supreme Court Justices Will the Next President Appoint?

The average age of the justices currently sitting on the U.S. Supreme Court is just over 69, and that’s the third-highest average age of the sitting justices in the Court’s history. So reports The Washington Post.

The justices’ ages will become a popular subject of political pundits’ conversations now that it’s an election year since the President appoints judges to the Supreme Court as they retire. The average age at which the justices have retired is 78.7, and three sitting justices—Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Antonin Scalia and Anthony Kennedy—are older than that.

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