{"id":1532458,"date":"2022-06-29T13:49:24","date_gmt":"2022-06-29T17:49:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1532458"},"modified":"2022-06-29T13:49:58","modified_gmt":"2022-06-29T17:49:58","slug":"justice-stephen-breyer-reveals-when-he-will-retire-from-scotus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/justice-stephen-breyer-reveals-when-he-will-retire-from-scotus\/","title":{"rendered":"Justice Stephen Breyer Reveals When He Will Retire From SCOTUS"},"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%2Fjustice-stephen-breyer-reveals-when-he-will-retire-from-scotus%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=1532458&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--><p>Supreme Court Justice <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/im-an-optimist-justice-breyer-pulls-out-pocket-constitution-says-he-believes-american-experiment-will-prevail\/\">Stephen Breyer<\/a> has revealed he will retire from the Supreme Court on Thursday at noon, a move that comes after liberal groups and activists heavily pressured him to retire and make way for another justice.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt has been my great honor to participate as a judge in the effort to maintain our Constitution and the Rule of Law,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/president-biden-hands-face-mask-to-justice-breyer-internet-freaks-out\/\">Breyer<\/a> said in a letter addressed to President Joe Biden.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis past January, I wrote to inform you of my intent to retire from regular active service as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, upon the Court rising for its summer recess,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou have nominated and the United States Senate has confirmed the Honorable Ketanji Brown Jackson to succeed me in the office, and I understand that she is prepared to take the prescribed oaths to begin her service as the 116th member of this Court.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson will replace Breyer, as the justice noted in his letter to the president. She <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/lifestyle\/2022\/05\/16\/ketanji-brown-jackson-interview\/\">was interviewed<\/a> by The Washington Post in mid-May and was asked whether she condemned the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/leftist-activists-demonstrate-outside-justice-alitos-virginia-home\">protesting<\/a> at the justices\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/pro-abortion-protestors-march-at-justice-amy-coney-barretts-home-with-blood-and-doll-props\">homes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t have any comment,\u201d she responded.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can\u2019t answer that,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/im-not-a-biologist-supreme-court-nominee-says-she-cant-define-the-word-woman\/\">Jackson<\/a> added, asked if leaking the draft opinion \u201cwas a good thing or a bad thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Her confirmation to the Court was <a href=\"https:\/\/demandjustice.org\/ketanji-brown-jackson\/\">backed by Demand Justice<\/a>, an organization that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/smear-campaign-leftist-activists-seek-to-intimidate-justices-control-the-court-experts-say\">reportedly has ties<\/a> to the influential progressive dark money\u00a0group <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2021\/11\/arabella-advisors-money-democrats\/620553\/\">Arabella Advisors<\/a>, which advocates for court packing and has repeatedly orchestrated campaigns to sway the justices on high-profile cases.<\/p>\n<p>When the draft Supreme Court opinion overturning <em>Roe v. Wade<\/em> was leaked in May,\u00a0Demand Justice Executive Director Brian Fallon praised the unprecedented leak, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/brianefallon\/status\/1521377663134453760\">saying<\/a>, \u201cSCOTUS leaks are good. Elite lawyers on both the left and right treating the Court as precious all these years have just been giving cover to an institution that is wholly unaccountable. Rip the veil off.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll Democrats need to show the same urgency as the clerk who apparently risked his or her career to sound this alarm,\u201d he <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/brianefallon\/status\/1521296266264817667\">continued<\/a>. \u201cThose on the inside know best how broken the institution is. We should listen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Demand Justice <a href=\"https:\/\/demandjustice.org\/demand-justice-launches-breyer-retire-push-on-anniversary-of-stevens-retirement\/\">launched<\/a> an April 2021 campaign to pressure Breyer to step down and make way for the first black female Supreme Court justice (Jackson<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/regulation\/court-battles\/547355-progressive-group-ramps-up-pressure-on-justice-breyer-to-retire?rl=1\">\u00a0was already considered<\/a>\u00a0the top candidate at the time).<\/p>\n<p>Fallon, a former top aide to Senate Majority Leader Schumer (D-NY), <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/regulation\/court-battles\/547448-biden-will-let-breyer-decide-when-to-retire-aide-says\/\">insisted<\/a> in April 2021 that it was \u201cworrisome that Justice Breyer has not said yet that he will step down,\u201d according to The Hill.<\/p>\n<p>The group\u2019s campaign for Breyer to retire was accompanied by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/04\/14\/stephen-breyer-retirement-supreme-court-481197\">pressure<\/a> from Democratic politicians, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/legal-issues\/biden-judicial-nominees-supreme-court-breyer\/2021\/04\/23\/eb770fec-a2fc-11eb-85fc-06664ff4489d_story.html\">Sen. Richard Blumenthal<\/a> (D-CT) and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/06\/14\/politics\/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-stephen-breyer-scotus\/index.html\">Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez<\/a> (D-NY).<\/p>\n<p>And when Breyer\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/highly-unusual-new-development-on-supreme-court-justice-stephen-breyers-retirement-raises-questions\">finally announced<\/a> his retirement in January, Demand Justice\u2019s Supreme Court blog <a href=\"https:\/\/ballsandstrikes.org\/scotus\/stephen-breyer-retiring-huzzah\/\">published<\/a> a piece\u00a0that credited Breyer\u2019s retirement to\u00a0being \u201cshamed by your tweets.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer has revealed he will retire from the Supreme Court on Thursday at noon, a move that comes after liberal groups and activists heavily pressured him to retire and make way for another justice. \u201cIt has been my great honor to participate as a judge in the effort to maintain our &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":496,"featured_media":1532585,"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-1532458","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\/1532458","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\/496"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1532458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1532458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1532585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1532458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1532458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1532458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}