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A lot to come in this term before justice breyer steps down, ana. the real work begins for the white house and democrats here. >> jessica schneider, thank you for your reporting. we'll come back to you as you gather more details. chief legal analyst jeffrey toobin, gloria borger, we just heard jessica lay out what's happening at the supreme court, some of the reasons perhaps behind this decision, but this is big news for the biden administration and for democrats. what do you see as the impact? >> i also see it as big news for the country. it is a history making moment when you step back and s...

She had already been serving as a district -- on the district court. and what we know about next term is that one of the biggest cases they're going to hear is an affirmative action case. so it's true that here we'll see a liberal replacing a liberal, but the new nominee is likely to be much younger. maybe more liberal than breyer. and will change the inner dynamics of the court. breyer will remain for the rest of this term which is right now considering some of the biggest issues of the day considering roe v. wade. he'll be there when that's decided some time in july. >> obviously there are s...

Step down. in fact, the progressive group demand justice promoted a mobile billboard with the words breyer retire trying to get their message out there. there has been persistent pressure to leave well before the midterms when at this point democrats would be in firm control of this nomination and hearing process for the next justice. justice breyer still has a lot of work left to do in it terms. there are huge issues outstanding including the fate of abortion rights, gun rights, those cases have been heard. and justice breyer will be part of those decisions since we have learned that he won't...

In american history. >> you know the inner workings and dynamic probably better than a lot of us, most of us, in fact. i'm curious how you see this shaking things up. was breyer extremely influential on the current court or, you know, will it be more easy to replace him in terms of fitting in with the crew? >> well, you are exactly right. once one justice leaves, the whole dynamic of the court does change. and as wolf has reported he said he was going to step down upon the confirmation of his successor, so we'll see those hearings. he's obviously going to stay on for the rest of this term. whi...

Down, and they were mad that he didn't. there may have been some calculation. he might have thought, look, i've been on this corporaurt th longest, i have relationships, i can play a role this term in these cases, the second amendment case, the abortion case, but so far it doesn't seem like he did a lot in persuading his colleagues in the one case they allowed the text law that bars abortion before most women even know they're pregnant to go into effect. breyer was in dissent and the conservatives are really pushing forward quickly here turning this court to the right. maybe he thought i'll st...