Dershowitz Makes BOLD Prediction About Justice Breyer’s Future: Here’s What We Know
by Jonathan Davis
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Harvard professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz on Saturday predicted that U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Stephen Breyer will retire next year to make it appear as though he’s not caving in to pressure from the left.
Dershowitz, who described the liberal justice as a “friend,” told Newsmax that he believes Breyer will call it quits next August, giving President Joe Biden’s administration and the still-Democrat majority Senate time to bring on a new, younger left-wing jurist.
“Next August, he will retire,” Dershowitz told “Saturday Report.”
“That will give the president the power to appoint somebody before there’s a new Senate,” he continued.
“So, everybody on the left will be happy, and Breyer will be able to say, ‘I didn’t give into pressure.’ That’s my prediction,” he continued.
Dershowitz said that demands from the left for Breyer to step down now have backfired because justices’ lifetime appointments were constitutionally designed to insulate them from political pressures of any kind.
Nevertheless, Breyer will be 84 next August and he is aware of the law, the political landscape, and the current make-up of the high court. He knows that he’ll have to step down while there is still a Democratic majority.
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