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Justice Breyer and I was in his intention to step down from active service after four decades,

four decades on the federal plants in 28 years on the United States Supreme Court.

I wonder if sometimes if the institution mattered more to him than the outcomes,

and here were people who were undoing the institution.

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and the rule of law and the law. I'm Daniel Lithwig and I cover those things first late.

I mean, eventually I'll retire. Sure I will. And it's hard to know exactly when, and you know,

there's a famous story. I can't remember who the justices were. You have to look at that up. I think

it was, maybe it was Stephen Field. I don't know where Holmes was sent off to tell him,

court well, maybe it's time here, maybe it's time. And then I think Brandeis or somebody went to

see Holmes. I don't have the name quite right, but he said, do you remember Mr. Holmes say when

you were sent off to see Justice Fields, they were great, and to tell him that maybe the time

it comes to reach, yes, it's at Holmes. And at dirtier days work, I've never done.

That was associate justice, Stephen Breyer, talking to me in December of 2020. A little bit over a

year later, that eventuality has come to pass. Justice Breyer announced his retirement this week.

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