Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer is slated to appear at the White House with President Joe Biden on Thursday to officially announce his plan to step down at the end of the high court’s term this summer, according to CNN, NBC News and the Associated Press.
“Let him make whatever statement he’s going to make, and I’ll be happy to talk about it later,” Biden told reporters on Wednesday
Off topic, but I’m glad Biden is our President.
I met Breyer at an event ca. 2000 and had a perfectly nice conversation with him. Good guy, very casual.
Never off topic, in my book.
…to fill a SCOTUS vacancy if the 83-year-old justice were to pass away after the GOP takes back the Senate.
This is kind of sloppy writing which is predetermining the outcome.
It should be “if the GOP takes back the Senate” or “in the event that the GOP takes back the Senate” not after.
I know it’s a minor peeve but writers should really not spin the outcome this way.
A critical foundational element of elections matter.
Were TFG still in office, this would be absolutely devastating and would bring us so much closer to the end of the Republic.
What I really like is that so far the process is being handled with an air of order, class and decorum that was totally lacking during the Trump Administration. This is what things looks when ‘the adults are in charge’.
It still amazes me that more people didn’t get this regarding HRC. A Trump victory meant exactly what we got.
Let’s hope we don’t lose a Dem senator before then. Or that one doesn’t switch parties.
if the price is right…???
Every man has his price, they say. But no amount of money can buy time.
OT: I do love seeing all the “lawyers” and “academic scholars” squirm.
It’s not something i expect.
I hope they do, but no one expected the Spanish Inquisition (h/t Monty Python).
Yup - and you can go back 16 years and to 1968 as well. It was Bushism that begat Trumpism. A big part of that, recall, was “There is no difference between George W. Bush and Al Gore” before enough Bernie brothers and Jill Stein supporters wouldn’t vote for the email lady. Enough of their predecessors torpedoed Humphrey, so lucky us, we got Nixon. A feature, not a bug.
Hopefully Breyer is not going to make himself look foolish and make a statement calling for bipartisanship. Unfortunately, I think based on his past statements this is very likely.
True
Hillary got 66 million votes in 2016, which is 4 million more votes than any previous Republican presidential nominee and also 3 million more votes than her opponent that year.
We currently live in post-Trump times, in which the electorate has vastly expanded because the stakes are existential for everyone. I’m cautiously optimistic that Trump’s extra voters don’t give a shit about anyone or anything except for Dumb Randall Flagg.
I have a feeling that the most rabid Trump voters won’t show if he’s not actually on the ballot.
Whether that results in a Democratic victory is yet to be seen.
And the least rabid Biden voters won’t show if Trump’s not on the ballot either. The big question is whose 2020 voters are going to be stickier going forward. I’m cautiously optimistic, but that cautious optimism could still turn out to be entirely unwarranted. We are in uncharted electoral waters.