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In Millhizer, senior correspondent of Box Covering the Supreme Court, why are we going to talk about ice cream today? I'm very confused.

Sorry.

As we've been reporting, Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer is retiring at the end of the court's term in June.

Justice Breyer is retiring from the Supreme Court. What does it mean? The most immediate significance is what it does not mean. It does not mean that Breyer is going to stick around to delete the potentially replaced by a Republican president, and then we would have a 7-to-2 Supreme Court with the Republican advantage.

But it also means that President Biden gets to nominate his first Supreme Court nominee.

I will select the nominee worthy of Justice Breyer's legacy of excellence and decency.

It means that this seat will continue to be held by someone reasonably liberal who will vote in the way that Breyer has historically voted.

I think it also may represent a recognition on Breyer's part that the sort of bipartisan deal-making that he has historically been very successful at as a justice is not something that his colleagues are interested in anymore.

Okay, hot take. Let's hold that thought for a minute and talk about what comes next for the court.

I will listen carefully to all the advice I'm given, and I'll study the records and former cases carefully.

I'll meet with the potential nominees, and it's my intention, my intention, to announce my decision before the end of February.

One piece of good news for Biden is that it only takes 50 votes plus the vice president to confirm a Supreme Court nominee.

He doesn't need any Republican votes in order to get this done.

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