NY voters reject raising judges’ retirement age
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Judges won’t remain on the state’s highest court and principal trial courts until 80 years old after voters rejected a referendum to raise the age limit a decade.
That would have postponed mandatory retirement for four of the seven judges currently on the Court of Appeals, who are appointed to 14-year terms.
State Supreme Court justices, who are elected to 14-year-terms, can now get three two-year extensions beyond 70, provided they get a certificate that they’re capable and needed by New York’s overcrowded courts.