Tag: Stephen Breyer

Justice Breyer Retires, Leaving Warnings In His Wake

Breyer Respectfully, And Permanently, Dissents From The Court’s Rightward Sprint.

By Kate Riga | June 30, 2022 7:00 a.m.

Breyer Makes Plain The Lunacy Of Cherry-Picking Historical Evidence To Determine Constitutional Rights

By Kate Riga | June 23, 2022 2:37 p.m.

Biden Whittles Supreme Court Shortlist To ‘About Four People’

By Kate Riga | February 10, 2022 5:45 p.m.

Durbin Rebukes GOPers Who Cast Biden SCOTUS Nominee As An ‘Affirmative Action Quota Pick’

By Summer Concepcion | January 30, 2022 4:07 p.m.

Listen to This: The Breyer Scoop

By Jackie Wilhelm | January 28, 2022 1:51 p.m.

A new episode of The Josh Marshall Podcast is live! This week, Josh and Kate discuss Justice Stephen Breyer’s retirement and some good news on the redistricting front.

You can listen to the new episode of The Josh Marshall Podcast here.

Where Things Stand: GOP Didn’t Yell About Demographic SCOTUS Promises When Their Sweet Prince Reagan Did It

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By Nicole Lafond | January 27, 2022 6:15 p.m.

Some conservatives weren’t thrilled in the Reagan-era, but not in the overwrought way on display today.

The gist: Republicans don’t seem to have any satisfying path forward for carrying out their typical obstruction of a Democratic president’s SCOTUS nominee. So they’re tossing their outrage into a tired bucket: Whoever President Biden chooses as his pick to replace retiring-Justice Stephen Breyer will be a Radical Left Activist! The only discernible reason for this assumption is weird and racist: Biden today reaffirmed his campaign vow to appoint the first Black woman to the Supreme Court during his presidency, if the opportunity arose. It has.

And in a 50-50 Senate, Republicans are aware there’s not much they can do to Merrick Garland their way out of handing Biden a Supreme Court appointment win — Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) admitted as much mere hours after Breyer’s retirement news broke yesterday. And so, instead, they’re getting a head start on the party’s 2022 messaging, vowing that Democrats will PAY in the Midterms … for doing exactly what Trump did three times during his presidency (i.e., part of his job).