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Progressives really want Justice Breyer to retire but they are also a bit hesitant about appearing too eager. But the closer we get to June, the month when retirements are usually announced, the more articles about Breyer’s retirement keep popping up all over the media. Yesterday the NY Times published one saying that Breyer probably won’t retire because he’s determined not to let his own retirement be politicized.
My experience of more than 30 years as a judge has shown me that, once men and women take the judicial oath, they take the oath to heart,” he said last month in a lecture at Harvard Law School. “They are loyal to the rule of law, not to the political party that helped to secure their appointment.”…
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Justice Stephen G. Breyer, 82, has been on the Supreme Court for nearly 27 years.Credit.Stefani Reynolds for The New York Times
May 17, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET
WASHINGTON Many liberals say Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg made a terrible miscalculation in deciding, in her 80s and after bouts with cancer, not to retire under President Barack Obama. She died in September, allowing President Donald J. Trump to name her successor and shift the Supreme Court to the right.
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Learn about Native American history May 19 with Elmhurst Public Library Kim Sigafus will speak on Native American history during May 19 program with Elmhurst Public Library. Courtesy of Elmhurst Public Library
Posted5/17/2021 12:20 PM
Long before Elmhurst existed as a city, the area was home to five different Native American tribes.
Elmhurst Public Library is hosting an online program on Native American History with Kim Sigafus from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 19, on Zoom.
Sign up at elmhurstpubliclibrary.org.
The award-winning author and Illinois Humanities Road Scholar will share the history and culture both past and present of her tribe and other Native American people in the Midwest.