Don’t Breyer Because It’s Over, Smile Because It Happened
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🗓️ 27 January 2022
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The 83-year-old Justice Stephen Breyer intends to retire at the end of this Supreme Court term in June, according to multiple reports yesterday. The oldest justice on the court, Breyer has been under enormous pressure to retire while Democrats have the slimmest control of the Senate. Leah Litman, a law professor at the University of Michigan and co-host of the podcast Strict Scrutiny, joins us to discuss what comes next.
And in headlines: San Jose passed the first U.S. law requiring gun owners to carry liability insurance and pay an annual fee, France’s National Assembly voted unanimously to ban 'conversion therapy,' and a rogue SpaceX rocket is expected to crash into the Moon.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Thursday, January 26th. I'm the Kedin Rezinc. |
| 0:08.7 | And I'm Trevelle Anderson. In this is what a day, the official meeting spot for people |
| 0:12.4 | mourning the end of Amy Schneider's historic run on Jeopardy. |
| 0:15.9 | Yeah, she had 40 consecutive wins. She was number two for the longest streak ever. |
| 0:20.9 | It's okay. Don't be disappointed, sis. |
| 0:22.9 | It's still like well over a million dollars. Think about that. That's pretty nice. |
| 0:25.7 | I mean, she's got good money, okay? |
| 0:27.4 | On stage show France bands, so-called conversion therapy, plus a rogue rocket from SpaceX is |
| 0:36.8 | on a collision course with the moon. |
| 0:38.8 | But first, the 83-year-old Justice, Steven Breyer, intends to retire at the end of this |
| 0:43.7 | Supreme Court term in June, according to multiple reports yesterday. The oldest justice |
| 0:49.0 | on the court, Breyer has been under enormous pressure to retire while Democrats have |
| 0:53.5 | the slimmest control of the Senate. While Breyer's replacement would not change the |
| 0:57.5 | makeup of the 63 conservative supermajority on the court, it could impact the court's future. |
| 1:03.4 | Biden's nominee would likely be younger than the other two liberals on the court, Elena |
| 1:07.2 | Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor. |
| 1:09.1 | Yeah, and Breyer's planned retirement also opens the door to some history being made on |
| 1:13.1 | the court. As President Biden pledged to nominate a black woman as his first pick, way back |
| 1:17.6 | in 2020 while he was still on the campaign trail. Two of the names that have come up in |
| 1:21.5 | recent reports are Judge Katanjee Brown-Jackson of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit |
| 1:27.1 | and Justice Leandra Krueger of the California Supreme Court. |
| 1:31.1 | Now, even before an official retirement announcement let alone the name of a nominee, there |
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