This Day in History: SCOTUS justice announced retirement

Published: Jun. 27, 2026 at 12:18 PM EDT

(WDBJ) - June 27, 1991:

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall announced his retirement.

He was the first Black jurist to sit on the nation’s highest court.

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