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Ruth Bader Ginsburg suggests she has at least 5 more years on the bench

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(CNN) – Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said she hopes to stay on the Supreme Court for at least five more years.

Ginsburg is now 85. By her timeline, she would leave the bench no earlier than 90 years old.

"My senior colleague, Justice John Paul Stevens, he stepped down when he was 90, so think I have about at least five more years," Ginsburg said.

She's already hired law clerks for at least two more terms.

Ginsburg made the comments Sunday in New York following a production of "The Originalist," a play about the late Justice Antonin Scalia.

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