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she also told nina totenberg that's what got her through her last bout with cancer.ob is her life. at the same time she's working at full steam and putting out opinions at full clip, she's traveling the world. justice stevens retired at the age of 90. as you said justice ginsberg 86. staying even longer would be the potential of a trump second-term. she's saying i'm in it for the long haul. acturally it's a little scary. >> 86 is still 86 but john paul stevens retired at 90 and wrote three books during his 90s. there is something about the water at the supreme court that adds to longevity. there's no question. >> i talked to john paul stevens at the end of april and he was still bragging about how good he was at ping-pong. >> yeah, a challenge. >> one of the thing steven also said to me in terms of policy is justice stevens told me he was against the idea of expanding the court beyond nine justices and justice ginsberg weighed in also. listen. >> nine seems to be a good number and it's been that way for a long time. i have heard that there are some people on the demo

joining us now legal affairs correspondent for npr nina totenberg.they achieved seeming like a nonpartisan body. >> it doesn't matter from all practical purposes if you could say, oh, they only divided along ideological lines "x" number of times. because on the big cases, they mainly divided along ideological lines. >> right. >> the only thing that made the difference in the census case was the chief justice. >> and so, richard, we were discussing this. you were reading through some of the rulings over the weekend, some light reading. what jumped out at you? >> nina, i was curious about your reaction. if you read the decision, first the majority decision and then the elena kagan's dissent on the gerrymander case, i thought it was extraordinary. i'm not an expert like you are, but the chief justice said we're not getting involved in this, it's too political we don't have the competence to judge and then you had eleanor kagan sent out an angry, basically sad, saying american democracy is in peril. what was your take on that? >> she really meant that to