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&lt;p&gt;When Babe Ruth hit the iconic &amp;ldquo;called shot&amp;rdquo; home run during the 1932 World Series, Justice John Paul Stevens was&lt;i&gt; there.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/i&gt;In other words, he&amp;rsquo;s old. He has all-but-announced his imminent retirement and&amp;mdash;presumably mindful of his legacy&amp;mdash;he has recently abandoned his longtime policy of avoiding media interviews (&amp;ldquo;because it saves an awful lot of time&amp;rdquo;). Yesterday, &lt;em&gt;The New York Times&lt;/em&gt; ran an interview with the perpetually bow-tied Justice and found him in an expansive mood. Some excerpts:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;On &amp;ldquo;conservative&amp;rdquo; judges:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;What really for me marks a conservative judge is one who doesn&amp;rsquo;t decide more than he has to in order to do his own job &amp;hellip; Our job is to decide cases and resolve controversies. It&amp;rsquo;s not to write broad rules that may answer society&amp;rsquo;s questions at large.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;On knowing when to quit:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;I write the first draft [of decisions] &amp;hellip; One of the tests I had for myself as to when I would retire was that if I ever got to the point that I stopped writing the first draft that would be a sign that I was no longer up to the job the way I think it should be done.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;On eminent domain:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;The Kelo case was one of my most unpopular opinions, and that was one where I thought the law really was pretty well settled on the particular point.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;On the role of personal experience:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;I&amp;rsquo;ve confessed to many people that I think my personal experience has had an impact on what I&amp;rsquo;ve done &amp;hellip; Time and time again, not only for myself but for other people on the court, during discussions of cases you bring up experiences that you are familiar with.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;right&quot;&gt; -posted by brian&lt;/p&gt;

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