Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, 83, plans to retire from the court, but he has not said when that will happen
Chris Wallace spoke with Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer on Sunday and, in the interest of liberal democrat interests, pressed and pressed and pressed him on why he won’t just go ahead and RETIRE so he doesn’t end up dying during a Republican presidency. It was slightly more carefully worded than that (very slightly) but that’s what he said. You’re old, you’re probably gonna die, shouldn’t you retire now so it doesn’t happen when there’s a Republican? In short, and citing Scalia, Wallace said only a FOOL would stick around and ruin it for everyone else, and you’re not a FOOL are you, Breyer? "I think, well, people understand to some degree why it’s a good idea what Hamilton thought. And he thought the court should be there because there should be somebody – somebody who says when the other two branches of the government have gone outside the confines of this document," Breyer said, referring to the Constitution. A number of Democrats have proposed taking away ...