Justice Stephen Breyer to retire from Supreme Court
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer is retiring after serving more than two decades on the nation’s highest court, Supreme Court and Biden administration sources tell NPR. Breyer is expected to make the announcement at the White House on Thursday.
Breyer — professorial, practical and moderately liberal — wrote many of the court’s legally important but less glamorous decisions and sought, behind the scenes, to build consensus for centrist decisions on a conservative court.
FAC NOTE: Justice Breyer joined Justice Ginsburg in the dissenting opinion in Smith v. Doe.
Is there a replacement in mind as far as FAC would suggest? We could then, as a group, make 800,000 suggestions for such an individual….
Another article I read on this topic shared that during the campaign Biden said he would nominate an African American woman if given the opportunity. A couple of names were listed. I’ll dig into the names later just for my own information, not like I have two cents to throw at it. Hopefully the right person gets the job to make things better not only for our community but the country as a whole.
Should campaign on asking why POTUS believes he has to discriminate to fulfill a campaign promise by choosing one ethnicity over others and one gender over the other. Is a Native American, Asian, or other ethnicity not good enough to be nominated regardless of gender? Does it have to be a female? By discriminating on this, he is no better than anyone who discriminates against PFRs daily using lack of information and intelligence when considering them for whatever needed to be considered.
As the country’s elected leader, he should know better than discriminate in picking people for positions and stick to merit based selections to set the example for all. Pick for their brains not where they or their ancestors hail from, skin color, or their DNA.
Woke-ism. They’d rather show how not “raaaaaaciiiiist” they are than to give the position to a truly qualified candidate.
Do you want a heart surgeon based on race/gender? Or one that knows what the hell they’re doing when they cut you open?
TS
Not saying I have an opinion on Biden, but he kind of painted himself into a corner. He promised if he got the chance to choose a new supreme court justice, he would elect a black women. In my opinion he did it to garner African American votes.
Regardless, if he does not do what he promised, he will for sure be in worse shape than he is, which is hard to imagine since they are saying almost no other president has had a lower rating in recent history.
@Cherokee Jack
Agree 100%
Any black woman who has reached a position on the federal bench is twice as qualified as any white guy in the same position. It’s the only way they can get there.
(h/t: @js_edit on Twitter)
Jacob, surely you jest. That’s akin to saying “hire a jew lawyer” because they had to work harder than everyone else.
Ok, an overstatement, but a perspective worth considering.
Some members on this forum are offended by the idea of a black woman justice, apparently.
One poster even suggested they’re not “truly” qualified and “don’t know what the hell they’re doing.”
@Jacob
Stats and citation on the qual statement or is that an opinion?
Just a personal perception I’m putting out there.
#@%* LOL
I was just signing in to send that in. You beat me to it.
You never know though how a new judge will rule on us and out plight. I think both Dems and Repubs try an avoid hearing anything having to do with registered people.
Even though they are on for life, they still don’t want to be seen as going easy on sex offenders. How many times have they deferred a case back to the lower courts when it concerned us?
CherokeeJack
I saw on the local news about a poll done on lifetime appointments for the Supreme Court. 87% are against lifetime; while 13% are in favor. Hopefully the right case lands on the lap of Chief Justice Roberts and his precious Smith vs Doe overturned.
When lawmakers quickly pass ridiculous laws based on bathroom reading material’s research it deserves to be flushed down the toilet along with the other sewage. Enough is enough of these crappy laws based on crappy lies fueled by bogus research.
Brandon, I submitted something to FAC via email that was never posted (why, I don’t know) about Justice Sotomayor wrongly stating there are hundreds of thousands of children in hospitals with covid. Her numbers (and beliefs) are patently false as demonstrated by real statistics. This is really no different than the “frightening and high” rate of recidivism by RSOs that SCOTUS said long ago and has been since repeated in nearly every circuit of this country even though that has been debunked many times. Bottom line, unless and until these people are willing to correct themselves on the record when they are proven wrong, then there will never be any accountability because of lifetime appointments.
Just Sayin…
Very Well Said!
All ‘Feel Good Policies’ Just Brain Wash Jurisprudence!
Even in Garland’s Comments on the SORNA Updates, He Just Passed The Buck…Made More Excuses Not To Change Anything, Than Anything Else…No Politician or Judge Wants Touch These Cases!
-Because They Will Be Ostracized in Their Communities, Just Like US!
If you read my SOSEN article, political alignment in SCOTUS matters more than you realize. While it has not been 100%, the liberal wing of the Court sided with us on many occasions.
While there are benefits and drawbacks to every system, the fact that judges are not appointed frees them from the influence of the ignorant masses.
There has not been a lot of cases involving a person on the registry. But in most of those that do exist, the conservative justices have not been our allies. Even in the unanimous Packingham v NC case, the conservative justices Roberts, Alito, Roberts, and Thomas wrote a concurring opinion that states should be allowed to regulate activity on certain websites.
It is a bit of a false assumption that conservative judges are tougher on crime than are liberals. The Does v Snyder decision has really produced little change in Michigan’s registry law. It has left the state free to simply write a new law any time the old one is deemed unconstitutional, and the new law will take years to challenge through the appellate process. Most importantly, as long as the federal law is held to be Constitutional, there is always that blueprint for states to follow. And that existing federal law is an additional punishment if you are subject to it. The idea that a public registry could ever be deemed a simple regulatory process is ridiculous, as any reasonable person knows.
Please Remember, That Jurist Breyer Has Voted on 19 Very Important Cases Which Have Yet Be Fully Published by SCOTUS…
That Being Said, His Retirement Might Mean This……..
….That Roe v. Wade Will Prevail, which is Awesome…..Roe v. Wade is about the INTRINSIC RIGHT TO PRIVACY which is not Explicitly Stated in The US Constitution……Abortion was Used as an Application…
So Many People really FORGET About the True Meaning of Roe v. Wade!
Replace Him with a Black Female, Might Be Great Choice…But The Real Choice Should be a Great Jurist; absent their Skin Color!
Normally, Dems and Repubs don’t impact us much since they both promote registries. (It is my opinion both parties are conservative, Repubs are obviously farther right but we have few true liberals in the USA.) But, where political alignment matters is in SCOTUS.
When RBG passed away, I wrote an article for SOSEN called “Ruth Bader Ginsburg and what her passing means for Registered Persons.” It is too long to copy-paste so I’ll just post the link, I hope folks read it because it is important. I have doubts Smith v Doe will be revisited but if it does, a 6-3 conservative supermajority is not going to be helpful to us. But that’s just my prognostication.
https://sosen.org/blog/2020/09/20/ruth-bader-ginsburg-and-what-her-passing-means-for-registered-persons.html
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson
California Supreme Court Justice Leondra Kruger
Judge J. Michelle Childs
Judge Candace Jackson-Akiwumi
4 Picks that Biden suggested, all women of color.
Source: CBSNEWS.com
While all these women may be well qualified for the job, I was raised to believe we as a nation are past the point of picking someone for a job based on their gender and skin color. Just imagine the outrage if an administration said “we will only nominate a White male regardless of others who may may be better qualified.”
I feel the same way. I mean, isn’t picking someone based on race called racism?
But how I feel matters. If these are the likely candidates, my hope is of the names on this short list, U.S. Appeals Court Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson would be the best choice. She’s coming from a highly liberal district AND worked as a public defender. I’m sick of SCOTUS picks coming from the State’s Attorneys offices. I think that would be a big help. If only we can get replace Alito and Thomas, too.
I must have missed the part where Biden said he’d be willing to nominate an unqualified candidate.
He did promise to nominate a black woman, but that has some members concerned that she’ll be unqualified. Why would that be?
I’m not familiar with all the candidates, but I am aware that at least the first two listed by CherokeeJack, below, are among the most qualified individuals you could find. One of them sailed through her Senate confirmation to the Circuit Court of Appeals (taking Merrick Garland’s old seat) and previously served as a Federal Defender. Another already serves on the Supreme Court of the largest state and has prior experience arguing before the US Supreme Court.
Yet you remained concerned because they’re black women?
@Jacob
It’s the process or the way it has been started and will have to be carried out to fulfill POTUS’ campaign promise…by outright and blatant illegal discrimination. No one said anything about quals (which we’re all waiting for your stats and citation on being twice as qual’d as anyone else BTW) or being afraid of a potential suggested nominee. POTUS can say the nominee will be qual’d as req’d but also has said they’ll be a certain gender and ethnicity, which unless the position specifically requires the latter (it doesn’t), that’s illegal discrimination.
The group here (ethnicity and gender being irrelevant) knows a thing or two about blatant discrimination having been on the receiving end of it. Therefore, they can see and smell it pretty well. If someone cries against discrimination then uses it to get what they want, it is called hypocrisy. The ethnicity and gender being specified should not welcome this process because it’ll possibly minimize them and their career to date. The content of their character and career (i.e. their quals) should be the focus (as Dr. MLK, Jr wanted over 50 years ago).
If POTUS really wanted this, he should’ve said nothing, then nominated what he wanted; however, he didn’t. Therefore, he is where he and the country are where they are at today.
In the end, this could be, if carried out, hypocritical illegal discrimination by POTUS for the nominee and the Senate if confirmed. It should be challenged in court at that point by someone who is aggrieved or harmed by this as it goes against Federal fair hiring practices.
Idk that the criterion is illegal, any more than Reagan fulfilling his promise to nominate a woman.
Derek Logue pointed out a candidate who has public defender on her resume.
How many sitting SCOTUS justices do you think have any experience in criminal defense? Any at all?
She would be the only one, if confirmed.
The same candidate has experience as a Federal District Judge. She presided over trials. Again, how many sitting SCOTUS justices have ever served as a District Court judge or presided over a trial?
To my knowledge, Sotomayor is the only one. The other eight have not presided over a trial.
And, as I mentioned, this candidate now holds Merrick Garland’s old seat on the Circuit Court of Appeals.
So I would suggest that she is BETTER qualified than the last three justices.
So don’t worry so much about qualifications, fellas. I suspect we’re going to get a well-qualified one.
Jacob
Correct…MOST SCOTUS ROBES are ‘Allotted’ Through the Old Legal Academic Channels Throughout the Last Century…..
Now, Today, That Process May Be Eschewed!
Perhaps, A Well Qualified Jurist, Who Has Real Experience in The Guts of Jurisprudence, May Sit on the Highest Court!
Time Will Tell During This Political Wrangling!
It’s all politics folks, nothing more and noting less. The following article proves it.
13 Senate Democrats voted against Black female judge nominated by Trump
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/13-senate-democrats-voted-against-black-female-judge-nominated-trump
On Fox News some pundits are saying Biden will nominate VP Harris to the Supreme Court. I rather bend over and grab my ankles than Harris being a justice.
Brandon
When you said that, before commenting, I wanted to look and sure enough Harris was an attorney. I must have forgotten and just now lost 10 points on Jeopardy.
I do not know of any vice president leaving while in office to take another position. Interesting.
Yep and Harris was San Francisco’s Da at one time. I knew Biden was going to nominate a woman as VP; which I had no problems with at all. Could you imagine if Governor DeSantis replaced Florida’s AG Moody with Senator Book. Would you rather have moody or bookie? Hell I’ll probably be forced to go to Florida and register as an out of state registrant.
Brandon
I will never speak bad about Book because I do not want to wake up at night with her standing over my bed with the Sheriff’s goon squad breaking down my door. Plus I have never met her and try and not bad mouth people as it could come back to bite you.
Having said that, if she got more power over the registry we are
@#%&-ed…. like a duck.
CherokeeJack
I just have a bad feeling that Senator Book will someday run for governor and believe that she would win. Just like you I’ve never met her, but she always comes off as vengeful, someone is after her, and the way she conducts herself.
Do you have nightmares of Senator Book standing over your bed? Just admit you like her. Lauren Jack has a nice ring to it.
Brandon
I am not Catholic but when I got that Vision you put in my head, I had to say 3 hail Mary’s and 2 Saint Josephs.
Or was that drink 3 bloody mary’s and take two St. josephs baby asprin? I might do both just to cover my bases.
wow this was just posted about her a few minutes before I wrote to you. About her stolen nude photos
https://miami.cbslocal.com/2022/01/30/facing-south-florida-1-on-1-with-state-sen-lauren-book/
Source: CBS news
The interview on the photos is at 6:49 mark if you want to skip the intro
I just watched part of this. I don’t even know her and I hate her. But it is important to know who the enemies of America are.
Because the Hit Lists exist and my family has been harassed continually for decades, I’m not willing to even give scumbags like Lauren Book/Crook any chance. Not even a tiny one. I have no empathy or compassion for such people or anything that happens to them. If a crime happens, someone has to be the victim, so better it is a terrorist.
I find myself caring very little about most victims these days. I don’t care about trying to improve any laws to help protect them. We know government can’t be trusted.
Good job, Hit Lists, you’ve really improved Amerika.
I watched the vid. I can’t even look at her so I mostly listened.
She is a forever victim. She seems to get high on victimhood. She admits she’s a control freak and that’s why she wants to mercilessly punish her perceived attackers forever and destroy as many lives as she can get away with. She’s harmed far more humans than she has ever saved or ever will protect. But ya know what? Karma never forgets.
Think about it…the more families they harm with the whole SO agenda, the more people are waking up and will not vote for those monsters. Just like with the “covid” scam, the more they push and reveal their evil, the more people oppose the evil and the people perpetrating the evil. More and more people are seeing it, not just us families that have been forced to see it from the inside.
“Covid” is an umbrella for everything from allergy symptoms to candida pneumonia. Dr David E Martin has covered this many times. Yes, gain of function research began at the NIH and was moved to Wuhan because it is ILLEGAL here, but they’re working on other gain of function research and have successfully passed human pathogens to monkeys. They need to leave animals alone, they’re entirely different than humans!
Lauren Book is part of the vaxx the world agenda. I’ve been watching her opinions on vaccines. I’m wondering if the reason she fired her pediatrician before the scamdemic started was to hopefully keep him/her quiet about her kids maybe not being vaxxed, just like Bill Gates’ kids whose pediatrician let that slip to the public.
She’s a weapon of mass destruction. The genetic modification shots are on par with chemotherapy. Who would have voluntarily submitted their body temples to the genocide jabs if they knew this? 172,000+ spontaneous abortions and miscarriages so far following the jabs. Why isn’t Lauren Book speaking out about all those dead babies? Doesn’t she want to protect ALL children?
One of my uncles was killed by the genocide shots. He was bleeding from all orifices and developed severe pneumonia just a few months after the shots. His doc at the VA hospital cleaned out his stomach full of blood clots. She told my aunt she’d never seen anything like it. My aunt also was jabbed and had pneumonia at the same time but she recovered without hospitalization.
My uncle was vented and given Remdesivir and then his kidneys started shutting down and he died last September. When Fauci tested Remdesivir on African guinea pigs, it killed 54% of the recipients. In a normal world, the drug would have been discontinued.
I wonder if Lauren Book is aware of the truth about vaccines and genetic modification “therapy” but wanted to pin down the Florida surgeon general, for shits and giggles, to force him to go along with the script that vaccines are “safe and effective”.
Dr Robert Strecker and his attorney brother, Teddy Strecker, presented the facts to congress in 1986 that vaccines are BIOWEAPONS. It’s called “The Strecker Memorandum”. There’s a video and a transcript on the net. 1986 is the same year congress passed the Vaccine Injury Act, removing all liability from pharma for vaxx injuries and deaths. Pharma was going bankrupt from lawsuits and told congress if they wanted them to continue making vaccines, they had to stop the lawsuits. And the politicians obeyed.
Not to far into it, Teddy was found shot to death in his home. A while later, Robert was killed in a car “accident”. Representative Huff was also assisting with the Strecker brothers efforts and they killed him too. THE SAME PEOPLE ARE BEHIND THE VAXX AGENDA.
Did any of you watch the Rose Parade on New Year’s Day? I so look forward to it every year of my life. The floats and the horses, I just love it. They completely ruined it for me this year with the “vaccinate the world” float. I got up and left the room after screaming. Dr David Martin has explained so many times…pharma wants to get the World hooked on this technology which eventually will be implanted into newborns who will be tracked their entire lives and they will be able to end lives when they’re no longer of use.
Dr Davo also has explained the social security termination year of 2027. It ends in 5 years. That’s why they keep saying the elderly are at greatest risk and started jabbing them first. Then the working class because they’re gonna raise hell over losing all their money they paid all their working lives and learning they’ll have to work till they drop dead. Medicare and Medicaid also have an expiration date. So depopulation is necessary because they know the masses will finally unite and come after them.
I present my rant here because it’s all tied together, everything is connected and that’s why so many bad things are happening in rapid succession. By 2026 or 2027, all new vehicles will be required to have a kill switch that can be triggered remotely…by their goon squad/law enforcement and maybe what’s left of the military that survive the genocide jabs. Literally everything you’re seeing is all part of Agenda 2030 and Agenda 2020. Were in Agenda 2021 right now.
All I can say is, thank Gd for the vaccine.
Not a chance. I would avoid that channel like the plague. They are not as interested in informing as they are in outraging.