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Pete Williams of NBC News reports<\/a> that Associate Justice Stephen Breyer plans to retire from the U.S. Supreme Court at the end of the current\u00a0 term.\u00a0 Justice Breyer, 83, has been pressured by progressives to retire after Joe Biden won the presidency last year. \u00a0 Liberal U.C. Berkeley law school dean Erwin Chemerinsky urged Breyer to step down and put “the good of the institution” ahead of his personal interests.\u00a0 The progressive group Demand Justice actually hired a billboard truck to drive around Washington last year with a “Breyer Retire.\u00a0 It’s time for a Black woman Supreme Court Justice<\/em>,” sign.\u00a0 Recognizing that optics are the priority among liberals Biden has already pledged to do this.\u00a0 Williams speculates that federal judge Ketanji Brown Jackson and CA Supreme Court Justice Leondra Kruger are likely candidates.\u00a0\u00a0 Breyer’s replacement will not change the conservative\/liberal balance on the court, but a young appointee, like Kruger at 45 or Jackson at 51, could serve for decades and be part of a future liberal majority.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pete Williams of NBC News reports that Associate Justice Stephen Breyer plans to retire from the U.S. Supreme Court at the end of the current\u00a0 term.\u00a0 Justice Breyer, 83, has been pressured by progressives to retire after Joe Biden won the presidency last year. \u00a0 Liberal U.C. Berkeley law school dean Erwin Chemerinsky urged Breyer to step down and put “the good of the institution” ahead of his personal interests.\u00a0 The progressive group Demand Justice actually hired a billboard truck to drive around Washington last year with a “Breyer Retire.\u00a0 It’s time for a Black woman Supreme Court Justice,” sign.\u00a0 Recognizing that optics are the priority among liberals Biden has already pledged to do this.\u00a0 Williams speculates that federal judge Ketanji Brown Jackson and CA Supreme Court Justice Leondra Kruger are likely candidates.\u00a0\u00a0 Breyer’s replacement will not change the conservative\/liberal balance on the court, but a young appointee, like Kruger at 45 or Jackson at 51, could serve for decades and be part of a future liberal majority.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-supreme-court"],"yoast_head":"\nBreyer to Retire - Crime & Consequences<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=5718\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Breyer to Retire - Crime & Consequences\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Pete Williams of NBC News reports that Associate Justice Stephen Breyer plans to retire from the U.S. Supreme Court at the end of the current\u00a0 term.\u00a0 Justice Breyer, 83, has been pressured by progressives to retire after Joe Biden won the presidency last year. \u00a0 Liberal U.C. 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