Bye Bye, Breyer
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4.3 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 27 January 2022
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
This week, Justice Stephen G. Breyer is expected to announce his plan to retire from the Supreme Court at the end of its term this summer. Breyer’s signal comes after a year-long pressure campaign from the political left and others anxious to ensure that Democrats control who replaces the court’s most senior liberal justice.
Guest: Mark Joseph Stern, who covers courts and the law for Slate.
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| 0:00.0 | Between forgetting the sellotape, |
| 0:01.6 | trying to squeeze eight people around a six-seater table |
| 0:04.1 | and the cat taking down the tree. |
| 0:06.1 | Again! |
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| 0:37.2 | Hello, Mark Joseph-Starn. |
| 0:39.4 | Hi, what a day, huh? |
| 0:42.0 | Mark covers the Supreme Court for Slate. |
| 0:45.2 | How are your notifications doing? |
| 0:47.1 | I had to shut them all off. |
| 0:49.2 | I did that new focus mode, you know, on my phone, |
| 0:52.5 | because otherwise it would have actually |
| 0:54.9 | exploded into flames. |
| 0:59.4 | I called Mark up, because yesterday we learned |
| 1:02.4 | Justice Stephen Breyer was going to do something |
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