Breyer's Exit Nods to Politics of the Supreme Court He Decried
- He stressed that justices weren’t ‘junior league politicians’
- Retirement timed as Democrats control White House, Senate
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After a career trying to keep the U.S. Supreme Court above politics, Justice Stephen Breyer’s retirement underscores just how central the court now is to the U.S. political wars.
Breyer’s White House announcement Thursday was timed perfectly to give President Joe Biden a needed chance to change the national conversation and reinforce the court’s beleaguered liberal wing.