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Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer Makes His Retirement Date Official

Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer sent a Wednesday letter to President Joe Biden saying he will be retiring effective Thursday at noon.

No, this doesn’t mean that Biden is going to nominate another justice.

Breyer will be replaced by Ketanji Brown Jackson, having announced in January that he’d be retiring at the end of the Supreme Court’s summer session. The court is slated to issue its final opinions of its current term on Thursday.

Nominated by then-President Bill Clinton in 1994, Breyer has been one of the court’s most reliably liberal justices.

“It has been my great honor to participate as a judge in the effort to maintain our Constitution and the rule of law,” he wrote in his letter to Biden.

Breyer said Jackson was “prepared to take the prescribed oaths to begin her service as the 116th member of this Court.”

Breyer’s replacement was confirmed in April but has waited for his retirement to take her oath as an associate justice.

She will be sworn in at noon Thursday, the court announced.

Voting against the court’s conservative majority in favor of keeping the pro-abortion Roe v. Wade ruling will have been one of his last functions as a justice.

His replacement won’t change the court’s political alignment.

Jackson expressed many of the same liberal views that Breyer is known for during her confirmation hearings.

However, the change to the court will somewhat alter its demographics.

Jackson is the first black female justice. She will join Justice Clarence Thomas, the second African-American on the Supreme Court, following the late Thurgood Marshall.

READ 13 COMMENTS
  • John says:

    May he Burn in hell this communist,pedophile protecting, anti-American,perverted Pig of the Democrat Antichrist, American hating demonic party.

  • Paul Otts says:

    Well, we can expect a mentally deranged appointee from some sub-category of minority for his replacement. No whites need apply…

  • Leshl says:

    Bryer you retired, Good. NOW GET THE HELL OUT. You did enough damage over the years, BUT I’m sure the new you will be much worse.

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