WASHINGTON: Justice Stephen Breyer, the oldest member of the US Supreme Court, remained mother about his future on Thursday after issuing the last two verdicts of a nine months in which several liberal activists urged him to retire.
Bryer, 82, has served in court for 27 years.
These activists want him to be a step to the side to give Democrat President Joe Biden the opportunity to mention replacement that can serve in a lifetime for decades.
The court has a conservative majority 6-3 after the Republic of the Republic of Biden Donald Trump can mention three judges for four years in the office, last appointing Amy Coney Barrett last year after Liberal Death of Justice Ruth Baderb Ginsburg.
Bryer, Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan formed a liberal block of the court.
Breyer did not give public indications that he planned to retire.
In April’s speech, he said it was important for judges not to be driven by political considerations.
Judges often announce their retirement as soon as the court issued his final verdict.
Biden for 2020 presidential election campaigns promised to nominate a black woman to fill the Supreme Court vacancies, which would become historically first.
Democrats hold a slim majority in the US Senate, which is below the US Constitution has the power to confirm the Nomination of the Supreme Court.
Some liberal activists worried that if Bryer did not retire while Democrats controlled the Senate, the Republican Party could block the confirmation of its successors or future republican presidents to say their replacements and shift the court further to the right.
Bryer wrote the leadership of June 17 The court refused the Republican offer to cancel Obamacare, preserving landmark health laws officially called affordable care laws for the third since 2010.
He also wrote a June 23rd decision in the case of the main free speech Cheerleaders who have been punished by His High School to post a spirit of social media.
In the past, Breyer has written an important verdict that upholds abortion rights and has become a continuous criticism of the death penalty.
The US Supreme Court Judge Bryer Mum in his future
