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.

41 thoughts on “Justice Stephen Breyer to retire from Supreme Court

  • January 29, 2022

    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.

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    • January 29, 2022

      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.

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      • January 30, 2022

        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.

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        • January 30, 2022

          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.

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          • January 30, 2022

            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.

          • January 30, 2022

            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.

          • January 30, 2022

            The interview on the photos is at 6:49 mark if you want to skip the intro

          • January 30, 2022

            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.

          • February 1, 2022

            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.

          • February 1, 2022

            All I can say is, thank Gd for the vaccine.

    • January 29, 2022

      Not a chance. I would avoid that channel like the plague. They are not as interested in informing as they are in outraging.

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  • January 28, 2022

    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.

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    • January 29, 2022

      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!

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  • January 27, 2022

    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?

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    • January 28, 2022

      @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.

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      • January 28, 2022

        Idk that the criterion is illegal, any more than Reagan fulfilling his promise to nominate a woman.

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  • January 27, 2022

    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

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    • January 27, 2022

      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.”

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      • January 28, 2022

        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.

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