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Letter to president obama today saying he is retiring at the end of the summer session. stevens will turn 90 this month. he was nominate by president ford in 1975, viewed as the leader of the high court liberal block. todays other big retirement story. congressman bart stupak of michigan says he wont seek a tenth term. an antiabortion democrat came under fire from the left and the right for his 11th hour deal with the white house to support the health care reform bill. he sooind on aftigned on...

Controversial and a number of other issues he could take unilaterally to mitigate the pain of the deportations that in our community, has meant shattering of families for more than five years now. but i think the fact that this deadline that the president has let seep, that hell act if nothing comes out of the houses the fact that people are saying that its probably a real deadline, that hell act forcefully in july or august if nothing comes out of the hill. i think it will help motivate speaker...

How it was done in the day. we expected this would be the month he would say something because he turns 90 and indicated this would be the month for him to make a decision and needed to let the political process know as early as possible so he could get out of the way for a successor to be confirmed and nominated by october. so, he did send a letter to the president. it was hand-delivered this morning at about 10:30. it says he intended to leave when the current term of the court ends in the sum...