{"id":712828,"date":"2010-04-09T11:09:27","date_gmt":"2010-04-09T15:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com\/?p=16114"},"modified":"2010-04-09T11:09:27","modified_gmt":"2010-04-09T15:09:27","slug":"john-paul-stevens-letter-to-president-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/712828","title":{"rendered":"John Paul Stevens Letter to President Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHAMBERS OF<\/p>\n<p>JUSTICE JOHN PAUL STEVENS<\/p>\n<p>April 9, 2010<\/p>\n<p>My dear Mr. President:<\/p>\n<p>Having concluded that it would be in the best<\/p>\n<p>interests of the Court to have my successor appointed<\/p>\n<p>and confirmed well in advance of the commencement of<\/p>\n<p>the Court&#8217;s next Term, I shall retire from regular<\/p>\n<p>active service as an Associate Justice, under the<\/p>\n<p>provisions of 28 D.S.C. \u00a7 371(b), effective the next<\/p>\n<p>day after the Court rises for the summer recess this<\/p>\n<p>year.<\/p>\n<p>Most respectfully yours,<\/p>\n<p>John Paul Stevens<\/p>\n<p>The President<\/p>\n<p>The White House<\/p>\n<p>Washington, D.C. 20500<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHAMBERS OF JUSTICE JOHN PAUL STEVENS April 9, 2010 My dear Mr. President: Having concluded that it would be in the best interests of the Court to have my successor appointed and confirmed well in advance of the commencement of the Court&#8217;s next Term, I shall retire from regular active service as an Associate Justice, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3383,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-712828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Zre","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3383"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=712828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712828\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=712828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=712828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=712828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}