Pretty much this. I do wonder, however, if Manchin and Sinema would toe the line if the nominee turned out to be a left-wing version of Brett Kavanaugh.


In any case, the timing of this retirement is imho indicative of the Democrats' shrinking confidence in holding the Senate in the midterms. I assume they pleaded with Breyer behind the scenes to retire before it's too late. This will also serve to distract the news cycle from lots of bad issues for Biden (Ukraine, inflation, gridlock on his legislative agenda) and shift it to an easy win for him. Not even Joe "don't underestimate my ability to fuck things up" Biden can drop the ball on this one.

This post was edited by Black XistenZ on Jan 26 2022 04:16pm

Inb4 trumpers are mad justices are purposefully retireing so biden can stack the court and not waiting till death like they should be.

The nominee will be blocked by McConnell if he wants to:
https://time.com/6142711/joe-biden-supreme-court-nominee-mitch-mcconnell-stephen-breyer/


Also, your country is weak as fuck and is incapable of standing up to Russia. I guess Trump was right on that one.

Hello!

Unfortunately, Biden isn't stacking any court. In current state, he needed everyone on board and he lost 2 on many of his agenda items.

This is a "hail mary" for clout coming into the midterms with very bad approval ratings.

He wants to get 1 justice at the very least so he can claim that he preserved Roe V. Wade for his liberal base, but, after the midterms (which even with a president "above water" results in many losses even when 25 members of the opposition party aren't retiring), he won't have the votes to do pretty much anything, let alone pass another justice with far-left ideologies.

This post was edited by CyrusTheGreat on Jan 26 2022 04:31pm

There is an election year coming up in 2024. That’s way too soon for us to vote to replace a justice. We should wait until after the election.

Wait, Breyer wants to overthrow the government and replace it with direct rule by the working classes? This is news to me.

Hello,

sorry - I don't follow your point -- who wants to overthrow what, now?

I'd be happy to clarify, but, I am at a loss at this moment.

Thanks!

We're on jsp, milquetoast liberals are radical left here

Overthrowing the state and having the workers be in charge is called Marxism. That would be leftist. Breyer is a capitalist who supports the existence of a government so I’m not sure how you think he’s a leftist.

Leftism goes far deeper than supporting an economic system from which one benefited (including myself - capitalism is how I emerged from poverty).

If you'd like, please feel free to advise which critical cases he ever voted in favor of Conservatives for.

I don't believe a total economic shift to Marxism was ever presented to the Supreme Court, either, so the assertion he wouldn't vote yes is invalidated by default.

Lastly, I am glad someone finally explained Marxism with a real definition - taking what was unearned by collective force. It's what we see attempted (but unsuccessful) here in the US often in modern day

I welcome your thoughts

This post was edited by CyrusTheGreat on Jan 26 2022 06:33pm