Wed Jan 26, 2022 – 12:23 pm ESTWed Jan 26, 2022 – 12:31 pm EST
WASHINGTON (LifeSiteNews) — Left-wing Justice Stephen Breyer reportedly plans to retire from the U.S. Supreme Court at the end of the current term, giving President Joe Biden the opportunity to make his first appointment to the nation’s highest court.
NBC News broke the story Wednesday, citing “people familiar with his thinking.”
Breyer, 83, was appointed by President Bill Clinton in 1994 and is the Court’s oldest member. During his time on the Court, he has been a reliable liberal and pro-abortion vote, most recently displayed last month with oral arguments in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which concerns Mississippi’s 15-week abortion ban.
Breyer raised eyebrows by claiming that “the country decided to resolve its differences by this Court laying down a decision in Roe [v. Wade],” when in fact Roe represented judges taking the issue out of the country’s hands. The ruling has been widely credited with intensifying the abortion debate. Breyer claimed that to reexamine such a “watershed” case would “subvert the court’s legitimacy.”
Left-wing activists have clamored for his retirement for months, so Biden could replace him with
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