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Stephen Breyer
Stephen Gerald Breyer ( born August 15, 1938) is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. A lawyer by occupation, he became a professor and jurist before President Bill Clinton appointed him to the Supreme Court in 1994; Breyer is generally associated with its more liberal side. After a clerkship with Supreme Court Associate Justice Arthur Goldberg in 1964, Breyer became well known as a law professor and lecturer at Harvard Law School, starting in 1967. There he specialized in administrative law, writing a number of influential textbooks that remain in use today. He held other prominent positions before being nominated for the Supreme Court, including special assistant to the United States Assistant Attorney General for Antitrust and assistant special prosecutor on the Watergate Special Prosecution Force in 1973. He also served on the First Circuit Court of Appeals from 1980 to 1994. In his 2005 book Active Liberty, Breyer made his first attempt to systematically lay out his views on legal theory, arguing that the judiciary should seek to resolve issues in a manner that encourages popular participation in governmental decisions.
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1938-08-15
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San_Francisco
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Stanford_University
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Joanna Hare
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3
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Playing With Fire Getting Stephen Breyer to Retire

Aaron Blake: “The problem for Democrats in trying to force Breyer out, of course, is that there’s just not a great way to go about it.”. “Launching a very public campaign both would invite allegations of politicizing the court (allegations which should be mitigated by the GOP doing plenty on that front in recent years) and might not have much impact, given the decision rests with one man with a lifetime appointment who can do whatever he wants.”
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Stephen Breyer and the danger of the deluded institutionalist

Few among us want to be insulted by people who are instructing us on what to do with our lives. But that is the situation Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer now finds himself in. At the age of 82, he is besieged by liberals pleading with him not to repeat Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s mistake, to retire now while he can be replaced by someone of a similar legal outlook.
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Appearing Friday on Cheddar TV, Rep. Mondaire Jones (D-NY) called on Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer to retire from the bench at the conclusion of his term. J.D. DURKIN: Many Democrats say perhaps Justice Ginsburg should have considered retiring while President Obama was still in [power]. Should Justice Breyer retire while Joe Biden is commander-in-chief?
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Is Stephen Breyer About To Retire? His Clerk-Hiring Spree Suggests Otherwise.

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For more than a quarter of a century now, Stephen Breyer has served on the US Supreme Court. Breyer, 82, is the oldest of the nine current justices. He was nominated by President Bill Clinton in 1994. Before that, he served on the US Court of Appeals for nearly 15 years. He was also a former assistant prosecutor during the Watergate hearings in the 1970s.