Stephen Breyer to Retire From Supreme Court After 27 Years: Reports
42nd president of the United States46th and current president of the United States -Liberal Justice Stephen Breyer, at 83 the oldest member of the U.S. Supreme Court, will retire at the end of the court's current term that runs through the end of June, NBC News and CNN reported on Wednesday, giving President Joe Biden the opportunity to appoint a successor who could serve for decades.
Biden during the 2020 presidential election campaign pledged to nominate a Black woman to fill any Supreme Court vacancy, which would be a historic first. Biden's fellow Democrats hold a razor-thin majority in the U.S. Senate, which under the U.S. Constitution gets to confirm Supreme Court nominees.
A Biden appointee would not change the court's ideological balance, but would enable him to refresh its liberal wing with a much younger jurist in the lifetime post. Liberal activists are eager to avoid a repeat of what happened when Trump was able to replace Ginsburg, expanding the court's conservative majority.
Breyer last year authored a ruling rejecting a Republican bid to invalidate Obamacare https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-court-obamacare-idTRNIL2N2NZ2ZM, preserving the landmark healthcare law formally called the Affordable Care Act for the third time since its 2010 enactment. He also wrote a ruling last year in a major free speech case that sided with a cheerleader https://www.reuters.
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