>> On Wed, 26 Jan 2022 14:14:52 -0800, Rudy Canoza <j...@phendrie.con>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> By David G. SavageStaff Writer
>>> Jan. 26, 2022 Updated 12:59 PM PT
>>>
>>> WASHINGTON ˜
>>>
>>> Justice Stephen G. Breyer, the Supreme Court‚s 83-year-old liberal
>>> pragmatist,
>>> plans to retire this year, clearing the way for President Biden to make his
>>> first appointment to the high court.
>>>
>>> Breyer, a 1994 appointee of President Clinton, is the senior member of the
>>> three-justice liberal bloc, and his retirement is unlikely to change the
>>> court‚s
>>> ideological balance.
>>>
>>> But it should allow Democrats to replace him with a younger and possibly
>>> more
>>> assertive progressive. The confirmation process is likely to dominate
>>> Democrats‚
>>> agenda in 2022.
>>>
>>> „President Biden‚s nominee will receive a prompt hearing in the Senate
>>> Judiciary
>>> Committee, and will be considered and confirmed by the full United States
>>> Senate
>>> with all deliberate speed,‰ said Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer
>>> (D-N.Y.).
>>>
>>> Breyer‚s plans were first reported Wednesday by NBC News. Court and White
>>> House
>>> officials had no comment.
>>>
>>> Biden has pledged to appoint the first Black woman to the court, and the
>>> leading
>>> candidates are Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, 51, and California Supreme Court
>>> Justice Leondra Kruger, 45.
>>>
>>>
https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2022-01-26/liberal-justice-stephen-bre
>>> yer-to-retire
>>>
>>> "Biden has pledged to appoint the first Black woman to the court"
>>>
>>> Heh heh heh...the right-wingnuts are going to shit themselves over that.
>>
>>
>> Will that help his fuckup with Russia and Ukraine?
>
> Oh sure Trump would've stopped his butt-buddy Putin's invasion if he
> just asked nicely.
How exactly does Trump figure into this?