Chart of the day - Supreme Court tenure

From Steven Calabresi and James Lindgren:

To quote Calabresi and Lindgren:

Justices have been staying on the Court for longer periods and retiring later in life than ever before.

Yes, longevity has increased, but it didn't suddenly shoot up in the 1970s.

Linda Tripp, please check your messages

A friend of mine suggested yesterday that Elena Kagan's relative lack of a judicial paper trail would lead Republicans to dig up her records during the Clinton years.  And lo and behold, today's headline:

What’s in Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan’s Clinton-era White House memos?

Oh, this is going to be fun.  Remember Filegate?  Missing memos?  The Rose Law Firm?  Whitewater?  Fellatio?  Yes, everything old is new again.