Volume 50 · 24
Public Law 75–21
To provide for retirement of Justices of the Supreme Court.
Approved March 1, 1937
Statutory text
AN ACT
To provide for retirement of Justices of the Supreme Court.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That Justices of the Supreme Court are hereby granted the same rights and privileges with regard to retiring, instead of resigning, granted to judges other
than Justices of the Supreme Court by section 260 of the Judicial Code (U. S. C., title 28, sec. 375), and the President shall be
Appointment of successors.
Recall to service.
authorized to appoint a successor to any such Justice of the Supreme Court so retiring from regular active service on the bench, but such Justice of the Supreme Court so retired may nevertheless be called upon by the Chief Justice and be by him authorized to perform such judicial duties, in any judicial circuit, including those of a circuit justice in such circuit, as such retired Justice may be willing to undertake.
Approved, March 1, 1937.