DENVER--Former Supreme Court Justice Byron White will come out of retirement and return to the Supreme Court next session, he announced in a press conference Sunday. "I just needed a break in '93," White said of his retirement. "I was completely exhausted. I was away from my family all session. I needed some time off." White insisted he had never planned on leaving the judicial branch of government forever.
"I never wanted to leave the game forever," he said. "I tried commentary but it wasn't the same. I need to be out there on the bench making rulings, writing dissenting opinions, and being out there every night doing what I love to do." White, originally nominated to the bench by Dwight Eisenhower, said he was not worried about the age issue. "I know my body and I know I'm capable of getting out there every day and doing my job."
Supreme Court watcher Jon Blane agreed. "I know he's old, but White is still capable of going out there and giving 100% every night. Some of the younger players will have to go out there and earn their judicial time." Blane specifically said that Clinton appointees Stephen Breyer and Ruth Bader Ginsburg would be the first to feel the heat from White's return. "Ginsburg has gone out there and made a name for herself. She may be a liberal under a conservative President, but she still sells ticket. Breyer has to watch out or he'll be on the bench soon."
Blane later clarified that he didn't mean the bench of the Supreme Court, but was simply making a sports metaphor in a place where he later admitted one might not have been appropriate.
[To be expanded. For those interested, Byron White is dead, as is every other retired Supreme Court justice, but I like this concept too much to let it go. This guy died in 2002 so he won.]
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