As you may have heard, Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer has announced his retirement, meaning that Joe Biden should get to nominate his replacement.
Unless, of course, Biden takes weeks to pick a nominee, which he probably will, and Manchin or Sinema decides to grand stand about the nominations, pushing it past the elections day, when now majority in the Senate Republicans will refuse to approve any Supreme Court Justice that he nominates.
Schumer wants to hit the ground running, and match the speed with with Barrett was approved, but I'm figuring that we will see at least 8 weeks of West Wing bullsh%$ from the Biden administration:
Justice Stephen G. Breyer, the senior member of the Supreme Court’s three-member liberal wing and a persistent if often frustrated advocate of consensus as the court moved sharply to the right, will retire upon the confirmation of his successor, people familiar with the decision said, providing President Biden a chance to fulfill his pledge to nominate a Black woman.
Mr. Biden is expected to formally announce the retirement at the White House on Thursday, but the partisan machinery that has built up in recent decades around Supreme Court confirmations was already swinging into action on Wednesday as word of Justice Breyer’s decision raced through Washington.
Justice Breyer, 83, the oldest member of the court, was appointed in 1994 by President Bill Clinton. After the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in 2020 allowed President Donald J. Trump to appoint Justice Amy Coney Barrett as her replacement, Justice Breyer became the subject of an energetic campaign by liberals who wanted him to step down to ensure that Mr. Biden could name his successor while Democrats control the Senate.
Yeah, I'm cynical as hell about this.
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