This morning let me point you to a couple of interesting recent observations about things going at either end of the age bracket of the federal judiciary.

My law.com colleague Avalon Zoppo went live last week with a fascinating story at The National Law Journal focusing on judges confirmed to the federal bench before they hit age 50 who are leaving the bench at an above-normal clip. Meanwhile, in the latest edition of the Minnesota Law Review, Xiao Wang, a clinical assistant professor at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, did a deep dive into how federal judges are timing their decisions to take senior status, a form of semi-retirement that leaves judges still with some power to shape the law and make-up of their local bench.

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