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Jan Crawford bluntly describes Justice Stevens's seeming decline.

Stevens, who is about to turn 90, read a strongly worded dissent in the courtroom today:

[I]t was striking to see him appear to stumble over words as he read it, to mispronounce words like ?corruption? and ?allegation,? to seem to lose his place in his summary, to often hit the microphone with his hand or his papers.

... [I]t was so different from the John Paul Stevens we?ve come to know.

It's sad when aging shows, just as it's inspiring when an older person is especially vigorous. But no one can go one forever.

I wonder what a Supreme Court confirmation will be like in the new political environment, with the elections approaching in the fall.

Full post as published by Althouse on January 21, 2010 (boomark / email).