Justice Stephen Breyer to retire from Supreme Court

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Justice Stephen Breyer to retire from Supreme Court
 
Justice Stephen G. Breyer will retire at the end of the current Supreme Court term, according to a person familiar with his plans, giving President Biden the chance to make his mark on the Supreme Court by nominating the first African-American female justice and reinforcing the court’s liberal minority.
 
Breyer, 83, is the court’s oldest justice, and he has been under unprecedented pressure to retire while Democrats have narrow control of the Senate, which must confirm Supreme Court nominees. The current term concludes at the end of June.
 
A replacement chosen by Biden would not change the court’s conservative supermajority; Breyer is one of only three liberal justices. But it would give Biden the chance to have his nominee considered by a more favorable Senate, and mean a younger colleague for the court’s other liberals, Sonia Sotomayor, 67, and Elena Kagan, 61.
 
Biden’s pledge to nominate an African American woman is a first. So Biden will choose a person solely based upon sex/race and not who is most qualified for such a position!