Breyer Worries Retiring Could Add to Polarization. Would It? – The New York Times
Justice Breyer recently raised the hackles of liberal activists who have said he should resign quickly to allow President Biden to replace him. In fact, he said he was ethically opposed to the idea.
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As our courts reporter Adam Liptak pointed out in an article published yesterday, Justice Breyer, giving a speech at Harvard University that will later be published in book form, argued that justices must be loyal to the rule of law, not to the political party that helped to secure their appointment.
Justice Breyer continued, If the public sees judges as politicians in robes, its confidence in the courts, and in the rule of law itself, can only diminish, diminishing the court s power.
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