Why did Justice Souter wait until 2009 to retire?

a. so that he would get a bigger pension
b. so that Barack Obama rather than George W. Bush would name a new justice
c. to avoid the appearance of impropriety when deciding important cases on the docket in 2008
d. to ensure that he would be covered under the Affordable Care Act


b

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