Posted on 12/22/2020 6:57:08 AM PST by Red Badger
Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer has plans to retire but not anytime soon.
"Eventually I’ll retire, sure I will," he told Slate in a wide-ranging interview. "And it’s hard to know exactly when."
Breyer's comment came after he was asked if he supports judicial term limits, especially as confirmation battles for judges became increasingly contentious throughout President Trump's tenure. Breyer, in the past, has supported 18-year term limits, joking in 2016 that such an arrangement would "make my life simpler."
But when faced with questions about his thoughts on term limits in 2020, Breyer waved off answering as too "politically controversial." At 82 years of age, Breyer is the oldest justice by nearly a decade.
Following the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who famously shut down President Barack Obama's attempts to make her retire, Breyer began facing an uptick in suggestions from the Left that he consider his own retirement.
During an October Q&A hosted by the Edward M. Kennedy Institute, Breyer said that all justices think about whether they will retire or die in office, which is, in his view, just part of the "aging process."
But Breyer cautioned his audience that Supreme Court justices will not make a decision to step down based on political pressure.
"The more the political fray is hot and intense, the more we stay out of it," Breyer said.
In May, several months before Ginsburg's death, Breyer said that he does not think about retiring because "I enjoy what I'm doing."
Ginsburg, who faced numerous cancer-related health scares over the past decade, died in September, paving the way for Trump to appoint Justice Amy Coney Barrett and swing the court definitively to the right. Ginsburg, in her final years, consistently resisted calls for her retirement, saying earlier this year that she would do the job "as long as I can do it full steam."
Why even mention it?
He’s sending a message.................to Biden..............
My scenario assuming Trump wins: 1)Appoint another conservative. 2) Offer up Hillary as a replacement to an impeached John Roberts. She can stay in hopes that her replacement can be had in 2026. Democrats would play ball-would Hillary?
So he can devote all his time to churning ice cream?
“Why even mention it?”
I think he’s saying, “lookatmelookatme!”
If we keep the senate, his replacement can at least be a little to the right of him. Or the republicans can always allow anyone Biden chooses to the seat. Republicans have done that majority of times. It’d be hopeful that he stays until 2025 and we get the presidency back and we replace him. Yes wishful thinking.
He’ll pull a Ginsberg. If Biden gets in there, he’ll retire. If Trump gets in there, he will stay.
It doesn’t seem to matter who goes on the court anymore. RBG/ACB = 6 of one, half a dozen of the other.
To Kamala.
Even if we hold the Senate, Biden will get any Justice he nominates after a little bluster from Graham and the like before voting yes. Any, and I mean any.
RE: Justice Stephen Breyer plans to retire ‘eventually’ amid age concerns
I knew he would be the next one.
If (God forbid) Biden gets in, you will see a HUGE CLAMOR from the AOC wing of the party to nominate a radical to replace him.
Of course the Senate can block it but then it would depend on what happens in the Georgia runoff.
Plus, we still have the wishy washy trio of Romney/Murkowski/Collins.
See the tag.
Send Joe a telegraph, get your pick ready. Hopefully the GOP keeps the Senate and doesn’t confirm a Biden pick.
Correct me but in recent information on “Justice” Roberts being against the President, isn’t Beyer the one supposedly Roberts told they would let the mother—+cket in the White House referring to the President?
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