Breyer not retiring

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

Useless.

Yes gonna retire eventually and Biden not Trump will be REELECTED, because of Trump lies about a stolen Election

He never stops

Who will control the Senate is the real question.

D's are gonna continue to control Senate because we are gonna win WI and PA and Ryan, Beasley and Nixon are strong contenders if the H stays D and there is a blue wave but in Rassy tracking Biden is tracking the same as he was in Election night and some polls have him at 58

If that's true then it doesn't matter that he's not retiring now.

It does matter because we haven't had an Election yet and Voter Suppression is in the Red states, if VR isn't passed it will help Warnock, Mandela and our House candidates, that's why Klobuchar is telling Breyer to retire, because KETANJI BROWN will energize Blk and Latino voters

[Progressive Pessimist]

I'm not going to start pulling my hair out unless we're having this same discussion exactly one year from now.

You know it's going to happen, right?

I have no idea what's going to happen but I think it's more likely than not that he announces his retirement at the end of the next term. I'm sure in the leadup to that people will be freaking out though if that's what you mean.

No, I legitimately think he's going to refuse to retire and then die, or something, once the GOP takes over again. We live in the worst timeline and I can't help but expect the worst anymore.

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

I'm not going to start pulling my hair out unless we're having this same discussion exactly one year from now.

You know it's going to happen, right?

I have no idea what's going to happen but I think it's more likely than not that he announces his retirement at the end of the next term. I'm sure in the leadup to that people will be freaking out though if that's what you mean.

No, I legitimately think he's going to refuse to retire and then die, or something, once the GOP takes over again. We live in the worst timeline and I can't help but expect the worst anymore.

Sandra Day O'Connor is 99 yrs old living well in El Paso TX, users on this Forum think that Feinstein or Breyer are gonna die, he's gonna retire, but he isn't Kennedy who was coerced by Trump to retire before 2020 to stop D's from filling seat


You have to be hospitalized or have a chronic illness before you die, people have heart murmurs and live a long time

D's are gonna have at least the Senate with WI and PA thru 2024

[brucejoel99]

I'm not going to start pulling my hair out unless we're having this same discussion exactly one year from now.

You know it's going to happen, right?

I have no idea what's going to happen but I think it's more likely than not that he announces his retirement at the end of the next term. I'm sure in the leadup to that people will be freaking out though if that's what you mean.

No, I legitimately think he's going to refuse to retire and then die, or something, once the GOP takes over again. We live in the worst timeline and I can't help but expect the worst anymore.

I guess I'll just repost these quotes whenever Breyer's continued existence is in the news & resultantly triggers some of y'all, which will presumably happen at least a few more times over the next 9-12 months, given that some of y'all are just so easily spooked by literally anything that's not perfectly aligned with your visions of reality as you'd like it to be. Eh, who am I kidding? It's not like most of you are gonna even bother reading what I have, have had, & will continue to have to say on this matter anyway, let alone bother retaining the evidence put forth therein, because you evidently haven't before:

I don't understand why this is really all that baffling to some when there are frankly a litany of reasons - not at all involving "hubris," let alone of a "pure" variety - as to why he'd retire next summer instead of this summer: wanting to hear next year's abortion & affirmative action cases even if it's as a dissenter, not wanting to go without taking part in more in-person oral arguments as opposed to leaving right now when they're still remote over-the-phone, feeling confident about Pat Leahy's health not depriving Senate Democrats of a majority by next summer, & - of course - wanting to see KBJ succeed him, which likely wouldn't be the case if he were to step down right now, as she literally just got confirmed to the D.C. Circuit 3 weeks ago & isn't even slated to hear her first appellate case 'til Sept. Indeed, his asking one of his OT2020 clerks to stick around for another term (which is an unheard-of rarity when it comes to SCOTUS clerkships) implies that his doing so was just the easiest thing to do on short notice after presumably considering retirement this summer before making up his mind - for all of the aforementioned reasons - on one more year. Seriously, the available evidence at hand just doesn't point to Breyer willingly being "RBG 2: Electric Boogaloo," which makes sense, given his famous pragmatism.

Not retiring in the first summer of a Democratic presidency ≠ a naive blanket refusal to retire under a Democratic presidency, thus risking his death under a Republican presidency. Seriously, what is it with everybody on the left-of-center acting in recent days as if Breyer not retiring right now at this very moment equates to the literal end of the world? There's literally another summer left before the midterms, & Pat Leahy's doing just fine; Breyer's former clerk-turned-natural successor was literally just appointed to SCOTUS' Triple-A team, almost as if she's being teed-up for the inevitable vacancy that she's pretty much been the frontrunner for this whole time (& it's not like Breyer - who'd presumably like to see a valued former clerk of his own replace him - doesn't understand that retiring at this very moment would probably result in her actually not being the pick, given that being nominated for SCOTUS less than 3 weeks after becoming an appellate judge & before even hearing a single appellate case wouldn't be a good look); & one of Justice Breyer's OT2021 clerks is literally one of his OT2020 clerks whom he's asked to stick around for another term (which is an unheard-of rarity when it comes to SCOTUS clerkships), with the prominent implication being that his doing so was just the easiest thing to do on short notice after presumably considering retirement this summer before making up his mind - for all of the aforementioned reasons, & more (e.g., abortion/AA cases, one last in-person term) - on 1 more year. Seriously, y'all, all of the evidence points to one direction that looks a lot more like Summer 2022 than it does Armageddon.

[emailking]

I'm not going to start pulling my hair out unless we're having this same discussion exactly one year from now.

You know it's going to happen, right?

I have no idea what's going to happen but I think it's more likely than not that he announces his retirement at the end of the next term. I'm sure in the leadup to that people will be freaking out though if that's what you mean.

No, I legitimately think he's going to refuse to retire and then die, or something, once the GOP takes over again. We live in the worst timeline and I can't help but expect the worst anymore.

I think Trump winning would have been a worse timeline tbh. We split from Earth 1 in 2016 but have at least course corrected somewhat.

[GALeftist]

Bumping for no particular reason. Just been on my mind as of late I suppose

[Progressive Pessimist]

Bumping for no particular reason. Just been on my mind as of late I suppose

Mine too. I was hoping that Breyer would see what was going on and finally decide that it wasn't worth waiting any longer.

But alas, with how everything seems destined to suck, Democrats are going to lose the Senate for a decade and that's when he'll retire, if he doesn't die first

[Pericles]

Bumping for no particular reason. Just been on my mind as of late I suppose

Mine too. I was hoping that Breyer would see what was going on and finally decide that it wasn't worth waiting any longer.

But alas, with how everything seems destined to suck, Democrats are going to lose the Senate for a decade and that's when he'll retire, if he doesn't die first

Hey, a lame-duck confirmation would be hilarious.