Happy Birthday to Justice Stephen Breyer, who turned 80 on Wednesday. He joins Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who is 85, as one of the Court’s two octogenarians. Ginsburg and Breyer are both left-leaning Clinton appointees.
That means that there is a very real chance that a member of the Court’s liberal bloc could be forced to depart the bench before Donald Trump leaves office, potentially giving Trump the opportunity to name a third member of the Supreme Court.
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