Warren: Our Democracy Is in Serious Trouble Because of the Supreme Court and the Inability of Congress to Act
Massachusetts Democrat gives longest-serving court liberal an indirect nudge
The campaign to gently convince the longest-serving — and oldest — liberal left on the Supreme Court to retire in time for President Biden to clearly name his successor has waxed and waned in recent months.
And it got another little nudge, of sorts, this week from Sen Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass).
A growing number of Democrats are eager to see Stephen Breyer, 82, step away from his lifetime appointment on the high court while Biden can name a successor — and Senate Democrats hold their slim majority and are in a position to confirm that successor.
Appointed by Democratic President Bill Clinton in 1994, Breyer is the oldest and most senior of the dwindling liberal wing on the court.
Democrats have been spooked since Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg — Clinton's other Supreme Court nominee — died last September just weeks before the November elections. Ginsburg died at 87 while remaining on the bench despite suffering a number of potentially life-threatening illnesses.
The most recent push came in the form of an indirect prod by Warren in an on-air interview Sunday with Mehdi Hassan.
“Look, I am not going to give advice to Justice Breyer. That is a decision for him to make and not for me to make. I think that our democracy is in serious trouble, and it is in serious trouble because of the Supreme Court,” she said. “It is in serious trouble because of the inability of Congress to act. And we’re just running out of time. We have got to make changes in both places.”
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