The new date is January 26, 2022, 12:14pm.
According to multiple outlets, the Supreme Court will be without a justice this year when Stephen Breyer retires after more than 25 years on the bench, opening up a seat on the court for President Joe Biden to fill.
Supreme Court Associate Justice Stephen Breyer testifies before a House committee.
NBC first reported that Breyer will retire this summer at the end of the Supreme Court term.
The justice had been under pressure to retire from many Democrats and judicial activists.
The group Demand Justice launched a campaign urging the justice to retire immediately so that Biden could appoint a Democrat to replace him.
The Senate is evenly split with 50 Democrats and 50 Republicans, meaning if one of them quits, the other will have the majority again.
During a recent address at Harvard Law School, where he advised Democrats not to add additional justices to the court, Breyer did not mention his retirement plans, nor did he give any indication that he planned to retire.
27. After being sworn in as a justice of the Supreme Court in August 1994, Breyer will have served for many years.
Prior to being appointed to the Supreme Court by President Bill Clinton in 1994, Breyer served as counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee and as an assistant special prosecutor on the Watergate scandal. The opinions of the court include delivering the majority opinion in multiple rulings, striking down abortion restrictions as unconstitutional, and the National Labor Relations Board. The pressure for Ginsburg to step down came after she refused to step down while Obama was in office, which resulted in her being replaced by a right-leaning Justice.
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