{"id":1243244,"date":"2022-01-26T12:53:56","date_gmt":"2022-01-26T17:53:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1243244"},"modified":"2022-01-26T12:54:04","modified_gmt":"2022-01-26T17:54:04","slug":"report-justice-stephen-breyer-to-step-down-from-supreme-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-justice-stephen-breyer-to-step-down-from-supreme-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Justice Stephen Breyer to Step Down From Supreme Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Freport-justice-stephen-breyer-to-step-down-from-supreme-court%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1243244&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/courts\/\">The Courts<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Biden vowed to appoint the first black woman to the High Court<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"736\" height=\"491\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1232480818-736x491-1.jpg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"denied:data:image\/gif;base64, R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1232480818-scaled-e1623427478787.jpg 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1232480818-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1232480818-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1232480818-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1232480818-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1232480818-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1232480818-1400x933.jpg 1400w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tSupreme Court justice Stephen Breyer \/ Getty Images\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/kevin-daley\/\" title=\"Posts by Kevin Daley\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Kevin Daley<\/a> \u2022 January 26, 2022 12:45 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Justice Stephen Breyer will step down from the Supreme Court when the term ends in June.<\/p>\n<p>NBC News reported Wednesday that the 83-year-old justice decided to leave the Court within the last several weeks, citing sources familiar with Breyer&#8217;s thinking. White House press secretary Jen Psaki was <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PressSec\/status\/1486384652256522242\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mum<\/a> to the news, but did not deny the report.<\/p>\n<p>Breyer&#8217;s departure is a political lifeline for President Joe Biden, who faces sagging approval ratings and a deteriorating domestic situation. The prospect of a confirmation battle in a closely divided Senate will galvanize the Democratic base, now deflated and directionless following aborted pushes for a mammoth social spending bill and voting rights legislation. Breyer&#8217;s replacement will be the first Democratic appointment to the High Court in more than a decade.<\/p>\n<p>As a justice, Breyer was a regular vote with the Court&#8217;s liberal bloc, but his pragmatic turn of mind occasionally led him to side with the conservatives on criminal justice issues and religious display cases. He was a force for <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/courts\/breyers-influence-hits-its-peak-as-progressives-push-him-to-retire\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">consensus<\/a> inside the Court, little known outside Washington, D.C., but an effective emissary between some of the biggest judicial personalities of modern history.<\/p>\n<p>As a candidate, Biden vowed to appoint the first black woman to the High Court. Fulfilling that promise would further shore up the president&#8217;s standing with rank-and-file Democrats. The leading contenders for Breyer&#8217;s seat are thought to be Judge Kentanji Brown Jackson of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and Justice Leondra Kruger of the California Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Courts Biden vowed to appoint the first black woman to the High Court  Supreme Court justice Stephen Breyer \/ Getty Images  Kevin Daley &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1243244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1243244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1243244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1243244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1243244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}