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EVEN BEFORE our oldest serving president was inaugurated, a progressive chorus began calling for our oldest sitting justice to retire. Pundits and professors argue that 82-year-old Justice Stephen Breyer should step down to guarantee that President Biden names his successor. They raise the object lesson of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who had declined such entreaties—thinking it more likely that the Democrats would keep the White House than that President Obama could get anyone worthwhile ...