Stephen Breyer Just Answered Calls for Him to Quit

[corbe]

Stephen Breyer Just Answered Calls for Him to Quit

Ed Kilgore  12 mins ago

Having a lifetime appointment to a position means you get to choose the time and place of your retirement. For Supreme Court Justices, that typically comes at the end of a Court term, when retirement speculation arises nearly every summer. This year the buzz has been about 82-year-old Stephen Breyer, appointed by Bill Clinton in 1994 and the Court’s senior liberal since Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death last year.

Most of the chatter arose from progressives hoping he’d step down before Republicans get the chance (which they would likely exercise if they retake the Senate next year) to block filling his seat until the White House is in their hands, as they did when Antonin Scalia died in 2016. There is also some excitement about Joe Biden’s promise to place a Black woman on the Court for the first time at his earliest convenience. A lot of Breyer’s public fussing lately about the threat of a politicized judiciary has been interpreted as pushback against the idea that he ought to take one for the team.

And sure enough, Breyer has indicated he isn’t going anywhere:

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/stephen-breyer-just-answered-calls-for-him-to-quit/ar-AALHVja?ocid=msedgntp

[libertybele]

Stephen Breyer Just Answered Calls for Him to Quit

Ed Kilgore  12 mins ago

Having a lifetime appointment to a position means you get to choose the time and place of your retirement. For Supreme Court Justices, that typically comes at the end of a Court term, when retirement speculation arises nearly every summer. This year the buzz has been about 82-year-old Stephen Breyer, appointed by Bill Clinton in 1994 and the Court’s senior liberal since Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death last year.

Most of the chatter arose from progressives hoping he’d step down before Republicans get the chance (which they would likely exercise if they retake the Senate next year) to block filling his seat until the White House is in their hands, as they did when Antonin Scalia died in 2016. There is also some excitement about Joe Biden’s promise to place a Black woman on the Court for the first time at his earliest convenience. A lot of Breyer’s public fussing lately about the threat of a politicized judiciary has been interpreted as pushback against the idea that he ought to take one for the team.

And sure enough, Breyer has indicated he isn’t going anywhere:

<..snip..>

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/stephen-breyer-just-answered-calls-for-him-to-quit/ar-AALHVja?ocid=msedgntp

Why is it that they are in such a yank to see him step down?

[Fishrrman]

bele wonders:
"Why is it that they are in such a yank to see him step down?"

Consider the scenario of Ruth Ginsburg who preceded him...

(perhaps they're not confident they'll win in 2024?)

[libertybele]

bele wonders:
"Why is it that they are in such a yank to see him step down?"

Consider the scenario of Ruth Ginsburg who preceded him...

(perhaps they're not confident they'll win in 2024?)

They are experts at stealing elections, why would they not be confident for a 2024 victory?

  4 years is a long time off and I see that the DEM party will continue to inflict as much damage as they can.

[mountaineer]

Why is it that they are in such a yank to see him step down?

They want to replace him with someone exceedingly radical - and about 40 years younger.

[Hoodat]

Breyer and Kagan are deemed too far to the right by the current cabal.

[Wingnut]

Breyer and Kagan are deemed too far to the right by the current cabal.

True story.