{"id":689973,"date":"2021-08-27T11:35:16","date_gmt":"2021-08-27T15:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=689973"},"modified":"2021-08-27T11:35:18","modified_gmt":"2021-08-27T15:35:18","slug":"ill-make-a-decision-justice-stephen-breyer-weighs-in-on-his-potential-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ill-make-a-decision-justice-stephen-breyer-weighs-in-on-his-potential-retirement\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I\u2019ll Make A Decision\u2019: Justice Stephen Breyer Weighs In On His Potential Retirement"},"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\">26<\/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%2Fill-make-a-decision-justice-stephen-breyer-weighs-in-on-his-potential-retirement%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=689973&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 Stephen Breyer remains undecided about retirement plans, saying in an interview published Friday that there are \u201cmany considerations\u201d playing a part in his eventual decision.<\/p>\n<p>Breyer, 83, is the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/07\/15\/stephen-breyer-supreme-court-donald-trump-joe-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">oldest member<\/a> of the court, and he has yet to decide when to retire, despite increasing <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/17\/progressive-activists-ivy-league-professors-justice-breyer-resign\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pressure<\/a> from activists to retire immediately.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are a lot of blurred things here, and there are many considerations,\u201d Breyer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/08\/27\/us\/politics\/justice-breyer-supreme-court-retirement.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">told<\/a> The New York Times (NYT). \u201cThey form a whole. I\u2019ll make a decision.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Despite Breyer\u2019s statements, he acknowledges the involvement of politics in his retirement decision. Invoking the late-Justice Antonin Scalia\u2019s words, Breyer stated that achieving his preferred political outcomes \u201cwill inevitably be in the psychology\u201d of his final decision.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[Scalia] said, \u2018I don\u2019t want somebody appointed who will just reverse everything I\u2019ve done for the last 25 years,\u2019\u201d Breyer recalled. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/07\/15\/stephen-breyer-supreme-court-donald-trump-joe-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Breyer Weighs In On His Potential Retirement)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7268019\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"34\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7268019\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7268019\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1232480746-scaled-1.jpg\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1232480746-scaled-1.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1232480746-180x120.jpg 180w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1232480746-620x413-1.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1232480746-768x512-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1232480746-1536x1024-1.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1232480746-2048x1365-1.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7268019\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Supreme Court\u2019s nine justices in April. Chief Justice John Roberts sits front-and-center, with Breyer sitting one seat to the right. (Erin Schaff-Pool\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Breyer, nominated by President Bill Clinton in 1994, said that he wanted to retire before death, unlike Scalia and the late-Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think I\u2019m going to stay there till I die \u2013 I hope not,\u201d Breyer said.<\/p>\n<p>He also expressed wariness of proposals to expand the court \u201cto overcome what is now a 6-to-3 conservative majority,\u201d warning those in favor to \u201cthink twice, at least.\u201d Breyer warned that expanding the court risks undercutting \u201cpublic faith in the court\u201d and imperiling \u201cthe rule of law.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/04\/07\/justice-stephen-breyer-expanding-court-further-erode-trust\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Breyer: Packing The Court Could Erode Confidence In It)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf A can do it, B can do it. And what are you going to have when you have A and B doing it?\u201d Breyer asked. \u201cNobody really knows, but there\u2019s a risk, and how big a risk do you want to take?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer remains undecided about retirement plans, saying in an interview published Friday that there are \u201cmany considerations\u201d playing a part in his eventual decision.Breyer, 83, is &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-689973","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\/689973","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=689973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689973\/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=689973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=689973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=689973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}