Justice Stephen Breyer (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
I don’t know. I don’t think anyone knows. [I think he] feels an institutional loyalty to the Supreme Court, he believes that he’s still at the top of his game, is very effective and can still do some good.
— Mediation lawyer Kenneth Feinberg, a longtime friend of Justice Stephen Breyer, commenting on whether he thinks his pal will be retiring from the high court any time soon. Breyer’s longtime friend. “The opinions of the court over the last three decades would look very, very different if Justice Breyer wasn’t there,” he added. “[No one will] right away be as effective as him.”
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