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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.”…
Breyer Worries Retiring Could Add to Polarization. Would It?
The Supreme Court’s oldest justice has hinted that he may decline to step down, defying activists’ pressure. His reasoning would be hotly debated on the left.
Justice Stephen G. BreyerCredit.Erin Schaff/The New York Times
Published May 18, 2021Updated May 19, 2021
When the Senate voted in 1994 to confirm Justice Stephen G. Breyer to the Supreme Court, the final tally was 87 to 9. Though he’d been nominated by President Bill Clinton, a wide majority of Republicans voted in his favor.
Particularly for members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, much of Justice Breyer’s appeal came from his work in the late 1970s as a lead counsel to that committee. In those years, just after the civil rights movement and Watergate, the ideological divide between Democrats and Republicans on many issues was hazy at best, and he developed a reputation for being evenhanded.
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