What Next: Bye Bye, Breyer

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🗓️ 27 January 2022

⏱️ 30 minutes

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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. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Dear Prudence—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on What Next. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	There's gift I've ever received has to be a bike when I was younger, a pedal bike.
0:07.0	It was a sort of slick little road bike and I remember it was all like it was so it was all wrapped up
0:12.7	but it was so obvious what it was obviously because nothing shaped like a bike and I had a little ribbon on it
0:16.4	and I was so guest. For that was a life changer and I'm still sort of big on cycling around my area now
0:21.6	so for that one change me a little.
0:23.8	Joy in every sip with red cups now back at Starbucks.
0:37.2	Hello Mark Joseph Stern.
0:39.3	Hi what a day huh.
0:42.1	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. I did that new focus mode, you know, on my phone
0:52.6	because otherwise it would have actually exploded into flames.
0:59.6	I called Mark up because yesterday we learned Justice Stephen Breyer was going to do something
1:05.2	many progressives had been anxiously pushing him to do for a year. Retire.
1:12.4	It's traditional for justices to announce he's kind of moves in the summer after they've
1:16.0	worked through their annual docket.
1:18.3	It just cuts down on the awkward lame duck phase.
1:21.5	But even though Breyer is 83 years old, the most senior justice by far, this was a January
1:29.2	surprise for a lot of reporters.
1:32.0	Not Mark though.
1:33.3	Look I will say not to give myself too much credit.
1:36.6	I predicted a little while ago that Breyer would not step down during the first summer of
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