
Democrats Concerned About Supreme Court's Future
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Justice Breyer will be 83 in August.
Democrats still reeling from two significant blows on the Supreme Court bench in recent years are trying to make sure they don't make it a third. Justice Stephen Breyer, who will be 83 later this summer, is the oldest Supreme Court Justic by more than a decade. And as the Court reaches the end of its term, progressive groups and at least one Democrat in Congress are pressuring the longtime justice to retire. "Justice Breyer, for whom I have great respect, should retire at the end of this term," Rep. Mondaire Jones told Cheddar News in April. "My goodness, have we not learned our lesson?"More Related News