By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist

Court watchers will be interested to know that one of the most liberal members of the U.S. Supreme Court, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, told a reporter last week that she was not planning to retire before 2012, and hinted that she may stay on until 2016.

CNSNews.com is reporting that Ginsburg made the statements during a National Public Radio (NPR) interview last week when correspondent Nina Totenberg asked about her retirement plans.

Ginsburg, who was born on March 15, 1933, will turn 78 next month, told Totenberg:

“One of the nice perks about this job is that we get to choose paintings from the storage supply of the National Gallery, the Museum of American Art, the Hirshhorn,” Ginsburg began. “I had a wonderful painting from the Museum of American Art by Josef Albers. It was taken away for a traveling exhibition and I’m told that it will come back to me sometime in 2012. So I am certainly not going to retire before I get my Albers back.

“Another answer I can give you is I was appointed at age 60, the same age that Louis Bidenz Brandeis was when he was appointed the court. He stayed until he was 83. So I do have a way to go.”

Ginsburg, who has served on the court since 1993, will turn 83 on March 15, 2016.

Her poor health has been the frequent source of most retirement rumors. She was treated for colon cancer 10 years ago and had a cancerous tumor removed from her pancreas in 2009.

A staunch supporter of abortion, shehas held true to those convictions. Just last year she told the New York Times that Medicaid should cover abortions because the original intent of Roe v. Wade was to control the population of groups “that we don’t want to have too many of.”

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