{"id":44108,"date":"2022-01-26T11:08:35","date_gmt":"2022-01-26T19:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=44108"},"modified":"2022-01-26T15:15:16","modified_gmt":"2022-01-26T23:15:16","slug":"justice-breyer-retiring-from-supreme-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=44108","title":{"rendered":"Justice Breyer retiring from Supreme Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\">Justice Stephen Breyer is retiring from the Supreme Court, ending a 27-year career on the bench and clearing the way for Democrats to seat the liberal jurist\u2019s replacement on the 6-3 conservative majority court.<\/p>\n<p>Progressives greeted the news of Justice\u00a0Stephen Breyer\u2019s forthcoming retirement with a mixture of relief and frustration \u2014 relief at the likelihood his replacement would yield a younger and more diverse liberal bloc on the court, and frustration his departure would do little to impede the steady march of the court\u2019s six-member conservative majority.<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\">President Biden\u00a0is set to have his first opportunity to appoint a judge to the Supreme Court after news broke that Justice\u00a0Stephen Breyer\u00a0is\u00a0expected to announce his retirement\u00a0in the coming days.<\/p>\n<p>Biden vowed multiple times during the 2020 campaign to appoint the first Black woman to serve on the Supreme Court, and a number of Democrats quickly began applying pressure on the president to follow through on that pledge.<\/p>\n<p>The opportunity to appoint a Supreme Court justice is rare for presidents and can be a legacy-defining decision. Here\u2019s a look at some of the names Biden is likely to consider nominating as Breyer\u2019s replacement.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Justice Stephen Breyer is retiring from&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44108"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44111,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44108\/revisions\/44111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}