Lula may get yet another Supreme Court nomination

Supreme Court Justice Luís Roberto Barroso has grown increasingly explicit about the possibility that he will take early retirement. Fresh off a two-year term as chief justice,¹ he has said he is considering stepping down. On Tuesday, he made what sounded like a Freudian slip, remarking that he is “ending” his career as a justice after 12 years

Barroso will turn 68 in March, leaving seven years before he reaches the court’s mandatory retirement age of 75. “I certainly should not wait until I am 75, although I’m still pondering on the exact time [for retiring],” he stated.