Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens has died. He was 99.
from the Supreme Court in 2010 at age 90, suffered a stroke on Monday. He died at a Fort Lauderdale, Fla. hospital on Tuesday.
Stevens was nominated to the court by Gerald R. Ford in 1975, shortly after the Watergate scandal shook Washington. Though he was nominated by a Republican president Stevens eventually emerged as a liberal voice on the court, notably writing the dissenting opinion in“Although we may never know with complete certainty the identity of the winner of this year’s Presidential election,” Stevens wrote, “the identity of the loser is perfectly clear.
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