Senators React To Breyer’s Retirement

January 26, 2022
Associate Justice Stephen Breyer sits during a group photo of the Justices at the Supreme Court in Washington, DC on April 23, 2021. (Photo by Erin Schaff / POOL / AFP) (Photo by ERIN SCHAFF/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
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January 26, 2022

Justice Stephen Breyer announced Wednesday that he plans to retire at the end of this term. Democrats have been clamoring for the 83-year-old justice to step down while President Joe Biden still has a Democratic Senate to confirm his successor.

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Justice Stephen Breyer announced Wednesday that he plans to retire at the end of this term. Democrats have been clamoring for the 83-year-old justice to step down while President Joe Biden still has a Democratic Senate to confirm his successor.

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  1. Breyer Will Reportedly Retire, Giving Biden McConnell Chance To Pick New Justice

  2. Thank God. I was just thinking about this the other day and hoping that Breyer would do exactly this.

  3. Just in time for Manchin and Sinema to ride in and insist on restoring the filibuster for SCOTUS appointments, because tradition, bipartisanship, civility, and how easy it is to get ten republicans to not filibuster a SCOTUS nominee.

  4. Avatar for evave2 evave2 says:

    I accept this is the right thing to do. ESPECIALLY after Mitch McConnell said if the GOP takes the Senate this mid-term Biden will get NO nominees on the court.

    Breyer did not want to quit (I have not heard of any special medical issues lately for him) and the fact that he felt he HAD to sucks big time.

  5. He reached the “What’s the point of this job?” phase. Must be hard working with zealots with life-time terms. Even the Supreme Court of Iran limits the terms of its justices to five years.

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