Justice Stephen Breyer will step down from the Supreme Court, allowing President Joe Biden to appoint a liberal successor.
Summary
- WASHINGTON — Justice Stephen Breyer will step down from the Supreme Court at the end of the current term, according to people familiar with his thinking.
- Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer in Washington in 2021.
- It’s time for a Black woman Supreme Court justice."
- Circuit Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson of the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, a former Breyer law clerk; and Leondra Kruger, a justice on California’s Supreme Court.
- “Elections have consequences, and that is most evident when it comes to fulfilling vacancies on the Supreme Court,” Graham said in a statement.