Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) can reportedly stop Democrat President Joe Biden from being able to replace Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer should Breyer indeed decide to retire as expected.
With judicial nominees, only 51 votes are needed to confirm a nominee, commonly referred to as the &#8220;nuclear option.&#8221; In a 50-50 tied Senate, Democrats will likely need all their Senators to vote for the nominee and then would need Vice President Kamala Harris to be the tie-breaking vote.
&#8220;But the nuclear option can go into motion only if the Judiciary Committee reports the nomination to the floor, a procedural move that says whether a majority on the committee recommends the full Senate consider the pick,&#8221; TIME Magazine <a href="https://time.com/6142711/joe-biden-supreme-court-nominee-mitch-mcconnell-stephen-breyer/">reported</a>. &#8220;Well, in a little-noticed backroom deal that took more than a month to hammer out, McConnell and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer agreed to a power-sharing plan in February that splits committee membership, staffs and budgets in half.&#8221;
&#8220;If all 11 Republican members of the Judiciary Committee oppose Biden’s pick and all 11 Democrats back her, the nomination goes inert. The nomination doesn’t die, but it does get parked until a lawmaker—historically, the Leader of the party—brings it to the floor for four hours of debate,&#8221; the report added. &#8220;A majority of the Senate—51 votes, typically—can then put debate about the issue on the calendar for the next day. But that’s the last easy part. When the potential pick comes to the floor again, it’s not as a nomination. At that point, it’s a motion to discharge, a cloture motion that requires 60 votes. In other words, 10 Republicans would have to resurrect the nomination of someone already blocked in the Judiciary Committee.&#8221;
McConnell told reporters on Wednesday that he was going to wait to comment on Breyer’s retirement until an official announcement was made.
Multiple news organizations reported on Wednesday that sources close to Breyer had said that he was going to retire — and that Democrat President Joe Biden was expected to make an official announcement about the matter this week.
“Breyer, 83, the oldest member of the court, was appointed in 1994 by President Bill Clinton,” The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/01/26/us/stephen-breyer-retirement">reported</a>. “After the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in 2020 and the appointment of Justice Amy Coney Barrett by President Donald J. Trump, he 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.”
Breyer was reportedly not happy that the news broke on Wednesday, according to Fox News anchor Shannon Bream.
“Multiple sources tell me Justice Breyer was not planning to announce his retirement today,” Fox News anchor Shannon Bream wrote on Twitter. “They describe him as ‘upset’ with how this has played out. We still await any official notice from his office and/or the #SCOTUS public information office.”
A short time later, Bream added, “A bit more clarity. I’m told Justice Breyer had firmly decided on his own to retire and that an announcement was due very soon. And while it appears someone jumped the gun on that, better to characterize him as surprised by events today than ‘upset.&#8217;”
Ron Bonjean, former top spokesman to the Speaker of the House and the Senate Majority Leader, responded to the news by writing: “Potential retirement conversations between Justices and the WH happen at a very high level. For a news leak like this to happen is highly unusual.”
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Potential retirement conversations between Justices and the WH happen at a very high level. For a news leak like this to happen is highly unusual. <a href="https://t.co/kkuCxJJ7tV">https://t.co/kkuCxJJ7tV</a>
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President Joe Biden is set to meet with New York Mayor Eric Adams (D) next week after crime has increased in the city, resulting in recent killings of police officers. 
The White House said Biden will meet with the Adams on February 3 “to discuss the Administration’s comprehensive strategy to combat gun crime, which includes historic levels of funding for cities and states to put more cops on the beat and invest in community violence prevention and intervention programs, as well as stepped up federal law enforcement efforts against illegal gun traffickers,” per <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/26/biden-to-visit-new-york-to-discuss-gun-crime-with-mayor-eric-adams.html">CNBC</a>.
The news comes after two police officers were recently killed in Harlem. At a news conference at Harlem Hospital after the shootings, Adams <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/01/26/joe-biden-will-visit-nyc-to-talk-gun-violence-with-eric-adams-in-wake-of-cop-killings/">implored</a> upon New Yorkers to help “save our city.” 
“There are no gun manufacturers in New York City. We don’t make guns here,” Adams said. “How are we removing thousands of guns off the street and they still find a way into New York City? In the hands of people that are killers, constantly carving highways of death, destroying our communities.”
“We need Washington to join us and act now to stop the flow of guns in New York City and cities like New York,” he added.
As The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/after-two-nypd-officers-shot-nyc-mayor-adams-demands-federal-government-help-stop-the-flow-of-guns">reported</a>, “Adams, who is a former NYPD officer himself, told reporters that under normal circumstances, only police officials would be standing at the podium giving remarks.”
“I did not want that tonight,” Adams said. “I wanted everyone to be in the same room. I wanted everyone to be here to understand: It is our city against the killers.” 
“It is our city against the killers. This was just not an attack on three brave officers, this was an attack on the city of New York. It is an attack on the children and families of this city, and we are not going to win this battle by dividing lines between us. We must save this city together.”
Earlier this week, Adams <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/591482-biden-to-meet-with-new-york-mayor-on-gun-crime">announced</a> his plan to stop gun violence in the city. 
According to the city’s official <a href="https://www1.nyc.gov/office-of-the-mayor/news/045-22/mayor-adams-releases-blueprint-end-gun-violence-new-york-city#/0">website</a>, the plan “calls for both intervention and prevention to end the gun violence epidemic affecting New York, and calls on the federal government and New York state to partner with his administration and other city entities to take immediate action to reduce gun violence.”
“Gun violence is a public health crisis that continues to threaten every corner of our city,” <a href="https://www1.nyc.gov/office-of-the-mayor/news/045-22/mayor-adams-releases-blueprint-end-gun-violence-new-york-city#/0">said</a> Adams. “We pray for all the victims of violence and their families who are suffering, but we are going to do more than pray — we’re going to turn our pain into purpose. Public safety is my administration’s highest priority, which is why we will remove guns from our streets, protect our communities, and create a safe, prosperous and just city for all New Yorkers.”
Jason Rivera (22), was one of the police officers to be killed in the line of duty. 
His widow <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/grieving-widow-posts-touching-tribute-to-slain-new-york-police-officer-husband">posted</a> a tribute to him, writing, “Yesterday I visited the locker room where you used to FaceTime me at [sic] during your mealtime or right before you had to go downstairs to the muster room for roll call at 15:00.”
“Last night was supposed to be your day 5 &amp; you were RDO [off] for the next three days,” she said. “We both waited for your RDO’s to spend them together. But now your soul will spend the rest of my days without me, throughout me, right beside me,” the widow wrote.
“I love you till the end of time,” she added.
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In a letter to President Joe Biden on Tuesday, more than 80 Democratic lawmakers asked the president to cancel “up to $50,000 of student loan debt per borrower.”
The <a href="https://www.warren.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Final%20-%20Letter%20to%20Biden%20Cancelling%20Student%20Loan%20Debt.pdf">letter</a>, which included the signature of Senate Majority Leader <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/schumer-is-wrong-to-assume-cancelling-student-loan-debt-will-close-the-wealth-gap">Chuck Schumer</a> (D-NY), began by thanking Biden for extending the student loan pause, a move he made in December, and then requested he permanently cancel federal student loan debt. 
“As you continue to evaluate the best way forward to an equitable recovery [from COVID-19], we urge you to direct the Department of Education to publicly release the memo outlining your legal authority to broadly cancel federal student loan debt and immediately cancel up to $50,000 of student loan debt per borrower,” the letter reads.
The Democratic lawmakers said this move would provide relief to more than 36 million Americans. They also suggested that student loan payments would resume again but did not give a timetable for when that might happen. “In light of the high COVID-19 case counts and corresponding economic disruptions, restarting student loan payments without this broad cancellation would be disastrous for millions of borrowers and their families,” the Democrats wrote.   
In December, the White House froze student loan payments until May 1. At the time, The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/22/your-money/student-loan-pause.html">reported</a> that this decision affected around 41 million borrowers – that included nearly 27 million who hadn’t made a payment since March 2020. 
“While our jobs recovery is one of the strongest ever — with nearly six million jobs added this year,” Biden said in a statement following the student loan freeze. “We know that millions of student loan borrowers are still coping with the impacts of the pandemic and need some more time before resuming payments.”
Biden made student loan forgiveness a staple of his presidential campaign, promising in March 2020 to forgive “a minimum of $10,000 per person.”
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Additionally, we should forgive a minimum of $10,000/person of federal student loans, as proposed by Senator Warren and colleagues. Young people and other student debt holders bore the brunt of the last crisis. It shouldn&#39;t happen again.
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Last month, Vice President Kamala Harris joined the calls for student loan forgiveness, The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kamala-harris-pushes-for-debt-forgiveness-for-student-loans-top-obama-economist-pushes-back">reported</a>. “So, I know that Sec. (Miguel) Cardona, the Secretary of Education, is working on what we can do and must do frankly to relieve the — the pressures of student loan debt, and it’s a real issue,” Harris said in an interview with Margaret Brennan on “Face the Nation.” 
“Students across — well graduates and former students across our country are literally making decisions about whether they can have a family, whether they can buy a home,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;And it’s no small matter, and we need to figure out a way to relieve debt.”
The letter to President Biden also argued that canceling student loans would help “close the racial and gender gap,” pointing to black communities that have been “borne out of generations of discriminatory policies.”
“Due to systemic barriers, Black, Latino and Native American borrowers are more likely to struggle with repayment and consequently default on their loans at higher rates,” the letter reads.
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Daily Mail columnist Meghan McCain launched a lengthy <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10443695/MEGHAN-MCCAIN-got-Covid-doubt-America-recover-not-Biden.html?ito=social-twitter_dailymailus">tirade</a> against &#8220;moronic&#8221; President Joe Biden, saying that her personal experience with COVID-19 had convinced her that America would never recover as long as he remained in charge.
&#8220;It was easy for the media to — rightfully — blame Trump for the bungling of the early Covid-19 response, but Biden and his feckless, moronic, isolated Titanic of an administration gets the blame now,&#8221; <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/the-show-isnt-woke-meghan-mccain-explains-yellowstone-becoming-a-smash-success/">McCain</a> wrote, arguing that three years into a pandemic, better testing and treatment options should have been available — especially in the United States.
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McCain said that her husband, The Federalist&#8217;s Ben Domenech, was first to fall ill — and because at-home rapid tests were all but impossible to find, his best option was to stand outside in the cold, waiting in line to be tested at a clinic. His test, despite the fact that he was fully vaccinated, was positive. And hers — a rapid test delivered by a family member — was also positive despite vaccination.
&#8220;We live fifteen minutes away from the White House, in the United States of America. Why is it so hard to get an at-home Covid test?&#8221; McCain asked, adding, &#8220;In isolation, I started ruminating as to whether the last days of American greatness were finally upon us, like so many pundits have been circulating over the past few years.&#8221;
&#8220;For a pandemic that is in its third year, shouldn&#8217;t we have more readily available treatment and testing? For as much information as I know and as much as I have been exposed to, there was not much more than sleeping, Gatorade, Tylenol and a neti pot to treat Covid-19,&#8221; she continued.
McCain pointed back to Biden&#8217;s oft-repeated <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/advisers-plea-with-biden-to-change-his-coronavirus-strategy-as-he-fails-to-shut-down-the-virus-report/">campaign promise</a> — that he would &#8220;shut down the virus,&#8221; but he would never shut down the country.
&#8220;I didn&#8217;t vote for the man (or Trump) but I had higher hopes for a better preparedness for the country and the fight to at least mitigate Covid more than a year into the Biden administration,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;Inflation is rising, it feels like we will have Covid omnipresent for the rest of my lifetime and we are more divided than at any time in history since the Civil War.&#8221;
McCain went on to address the idea of post-COVID depression — something she said that she has experienced in the weeks since testing positive.
&#8220;I am a pretty optimistic person by nature and this has been hard for me to shake both physically and emotionally. I can&#8217;t fathom how people without support, resources and international columns to tell their story feel,&#8221; she wrote. &#8220;No wonder there is a pandemic of depression, suicides and malaise.&#8221;
McCain said that she had hoped Biden would boost morale and that his administration would have worked to make <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/gop-lawmakers-ask-biden-why-trillions-in-covid-stimulus-somehow-havent-paid-for-covid-testing-kits/">treatments and testing</a> available before it was needed, repeating several times the refrain: &#8220;Everything keeps getting worse.&#8221;
&#8220;I still refuse to succumb to the left&#8217;s propaganda that America&#8217;s greatest days are behind her,&#8221; McCain said, calling for a shift away from the tone and leadership of the Biden administration thus far.
&#8220;Maybe this is the best that Biden and his administration thinks America has to offer or deserves, but I assure you there will be others out there who do not feel that way. And they will not let this country continue to be this sick &#8211; physically, emotionally, financially. We are Americans, we can do so much better than this and we owe it to ourselves and the generations ahead of us to do better,&#8221; she concluded. &#8220;Biden may not believe in morning in America, but I sure as hell still do, just not under his failed leadership.&#8221;
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Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) released a statement on Wednesday praising outgoing Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer for his term on the court while also promising a &#8220;prompt hearing&#8221; and a confirmation process with &#8220;deliberate speed&#8221; for whomever Biden chooses for the High Court.
“For virtually his entire adult life, including a quarter century on the U.S. Supreme Court, Stephen Breyer has served his country with the highest possible distinction,&#8221; Schumer said via Twitter. &#8220;He is, and always has been, a model jurist. He embodies the best qualities and highest ideals of American justice: knowledge, wisdom, fairness, humility, restraint.&#8221;
&#8220;His work and his decisions as an Associate Justice on the biggest issues of our time – including voting rights, the environment, women’s reproductive freedom, and most recently, health care and the Affordable Care Act – were hugely consequential. America owes Justice Breyer an enormous debt of gratitude,&#8221; the senior senator from New York added.
Schumer stopped shy of commenting on what kind of nominee he hopes to see, as other Democratic officials have been demanding that Biden follow through on his campaign promise of selecting the first black female to serve on the court.  He did however promise that the process for his replacement would be done with appropriate quickness:
“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.”
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President Biden’s Supreme Court nominee will receive a prompt hearing in the Senate Judiciary Committee and be considered and confirmed by the full United States Senate with all deliberate speed. <a href="https://t.co/mUT8GSUHzi">pic.twitter.com/mUT8GSUHzi</a>
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The Daily Wire reported on Wednesday that the White House responded to news of Breyer&#8217;s retirement by saying they will wait for the Supreme Court justice to announce his retirement officially before commenting further on the situation:
“It has always been the decision of any Supreme Court Justice if and when they decide to retire, and how they want to announce it, and that remains the case today,” White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki Tweeted. “We have no additional details or information to share from @WhiteHouse.”
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It has always been the decision of any Supreme Court Justice if and when they decide to retire, and how they want to announce it, and that remains the case today. We have no additional details or information to share from <a href="https://twitter.com/WhiteHouse?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@WhiteHouse</a>
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Earlier on Wednesday, The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-justice-stephen-breyer-to-retire-from-scotus-giving-biden-a-court-pick">reported</a> that progressives have been advocating for Breyer to retire when appropriate so that his replacement could be determined by a Democratic president, rather than allowing a conservative nominee to tilt the balance of the court even more.
As NBC News explained, “Prof. Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of the law school at the University of California at Berkeley, wrote in a Washington Post op-ed in May urging Breyer to retire that there are times ‘when the stewards of our system must put the good of an institution they love, and of the country they love, above their own interests. They have to recognize that no one, not even a brilliant justice, is irreplaceable, and that the risks presented by remaining are more than hypothetical.&#8217;”
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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-justice-stephen-breyer-to-retire-from-scotus-giving-biden-a-court-pick">BREAKING: Justice Stephen Breyer To Retire From SCOTUS, Giving Biden A Court Pick </a>
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/white-house-responds-to-supreme-court-justice-stephen-breyer-retiring">White House Responds To Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer Retiring</a> </blockquote>
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Chuck Schumer Promises ‘Prompt Hearing’ For Biden’s Supreme Court Pick

In the wake of Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer announcing his decision to retire at the end of the Court&#8217;s term, progressives rushed to Twitter to demand that President Joe Biden follow through on his presidential campaign promise to select SCOTUS&#8217; first black female justice. The raced-base decision has already been hailed &#8220;historic&#8221; if it were to happen.
As pointed out by Planned Parenthood California&#8217;s Brandon Richards, during a 2020 presidential debate, then-candidate Biden pledged that he would  &#8220;appoint the first black woman to the Court&#8221; while noting that &#8220;it’s required that [black females] have representation now, it’s long overdue.&#8221;
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As soon as word spread that Breyer would be leaving a vacancy on the court, former Hillary Clinton presidential campaign staffer Brian Fallon opined that &#8220;Biden will get a chance to make history by putting the first Black woman on SCOTUS, and he will have many highly qualified candidates to choose from.&#8221;
&#8220;One of those candidates, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, was supported by all 50 Dems and three Republicans for DC Circuit last year,&#8221; he added.
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Biden will get a chance to make history by putting the first Black woman on SCOTUS, and he will have many highly qualified candidates to choose from. One of those candidates, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, was supported by all 50 Dems and three Republicans for DC Circuit last year
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Eli Mystal included Brown Jackson as well, alongside two other names: &#8220;Leondra Kruger: California Supreme Court, Michelle Childs: South Carolina District Court.&#8221;
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With Breyer stepping down, here are your names: 
Ketanji Brown Jackson: D.C. Circuit Leondra Kruger: California Supreme Court Michelle Childs: South Carolina District Court
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Mystal, a progressive commentator, predicted that Biden would be hamstrung by moderate Senators Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ), but supported by key GOP votes of Senators Mitt Romney (R-UT) and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK).
&#8220;My hot take is that Kentaji Brown Jackson is the pick and she gets Romney and Murkowski and basically obviates whatever BS Manchin and Sinema are planning to pull,&#8221; he tweeted.
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My hot take is that Kentaji Brown Jackson is the pick and she gets Romney and Murkowski and basically obviates whatever BS Manchin and Sinema are planning to pull.
&mdash; Elie Mystal (@ElieNYC) <a href="https://twitter.com/ElieNYC/status/1486387124635160582?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 26, 2022</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;She Will Rise,&#8221; a collective of black women dedicated to &#8220;using <a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1cvl2hr r-1loqt21 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" role="link" href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23BlackGirlMagic&amp;src=hashtag_click">#BlackGirlMagic</a> to save the country by getting the first Black woman appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court,&#8221; also expressed hopes that Biden would select a nominee who would fulfill the group&#8217;s mission.
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For decades, we have watched as mostly white men on SCOTUS deny Black communities our most basic civil rights because they don’t equally value our needs
Justice Breyer&#39;s retirement paves the way for the first Black woman Justice in our nation’s history: <a href="https://t.co/U5XzoH3pPt">https://t.co/U5XzoH3pPt</a> <a href="https://t.co/E0mNqfQ2YG">pic.twitter.com/E0mNqfQ2YG</a>
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Progressive activists weren&#8217;t alone in their hopes that Biden would follow through on his campaign promise.
Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) also voiced her support for a potential justice based on race and gender.
&#8220;Justice Breyer has led an exemplary &amp; distinguished career in public service. I’m grateful to him for all that he has done for our country,&#8221; Murray tweeted. &#8220;I support  <a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1cvl2hr r-1loqt21 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" role="link" href="https://twitter.com/POTUS">@POTUS </a>’s pledge to nominate the first Black woman to the Supreme Court. The Court should reflect the diversity of our country.&#8221; 
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Justice Breyer has led an exemplary &amp; distinguished career in public service. I’m grateful to him for all that he has done for our country.
I support <a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@POTUS</a>’s pledge to nominate the first Black woman to the Supreme Court. The Court should reflect the diversity of our country.
&mdash; Senator Patty Murray (@PattyMurray) <a href="https://twitter.com/PattyMurray/status/1486392490538283015?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 26, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Murray also told media that she is &#8220;ready to move as quickly as possible to consider and confirm a highly qualified nominee who will break barriers and make history as the first Black woman on the Supreme Court of the United States.&#8221;
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Sen. Patty Murray, No. 3 Democrat in the chamber: &quot;I am ready to move as quickly as possible to consider and confirm a highly qualified nominee who will break barriers and make history as the first Black woman on the Supreme Court of the United States.&quot;
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This is your reminder that President Biden promised to appoint the first Black woman on the Supreme Court.
It&#39;s long overdue. Let&#39;s get it done. <a href="https://t.co/uxR6ZKl9XL">https://t.co/uxR6ZKl9XL</a>
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As The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-justice-stephen-breyer-to-retire-from-scotus-giving-biden-a-court-pick">reported</a>, Breyer has said he did not want to retire when his potential replacement would be essentially the ideological opposite of his decision making and view of the U.S. Constitution:
<blockquote>Speaking of a conversation with Justice Antonin Scalia on the subject of retirement, Justice Breyer recalled Scalia’s comments that, “‘I don’t want somebody appointed who will just reverse everything I’ve done for the last 25 years.” Breyer then noted that this would “inevitably be in the psychology” of his decision regarding retirement.
“I don’t think I’m going to stay there till I die — hope not,” Justice Breyer explained.
“There are a lot of blurred things there, and there are many considerations,” he said of a retirement decision. “They form a whole. I’ll make a decision.”</blockquote>
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Progressives Demand Biden Pick Supreme Court Nominee Based On Race And Sex, Select First Black Female Justice

White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki responded to the news on Wednesday that Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer is reportedly preparing to retire from the nation&#8217;s highest court.
&#8220;It has always been the decision of any Supreme Court Justice if and when they decide to retire, and how they want to announce it, and that remains the case today,&#8221; Psaki wrote on Twitter. &#8220;We have no additional details or information to share from @WhiteHouse.&#8221;
Democrat President Joe Biden is reportedly expected to officially announce Breyer’s retirement from the Supreme Court on Thursday.
“Breyer, 83, the oldest member of the court, was appointed in 1994 by President Bill Clinton,” The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/01/26/us/stephen-breyer-retirement">reported</a>. “After the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in 2020 and the appointment of Justice Amy Coney Barrett by President Donald J. Trump, he 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.”
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BREAKING: Per <a href="https://twitter.com/PeteWilliamsNBC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@PeteWilliamsNBC</a> of <a href="https://twitter.com/NBCNews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NBCNews</a>, Justice Stephen Breyer is retiring. The 83-year-old Breyer, a pragmatic liberal who has served on the Supreme Court for nearly 28 years, is expected to tell the White House imminently of his intention to step down. <a href="https://t.co/zgYz2qmndI">https://t.co/zgYz2qmndI</a>
&mdash; SCOTUSblog (@SCOTUSblog) <a href="https://twitter.com/SCOTUSblog/status/1486383533308399618?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 26, 2022</a></blockquote>
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White House Responds To Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer Retiring

Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer is retiring, according to NBC News.
“Justice Stephen Breyer will step down from the Supreme Court at the end of the current term, according to people familiar with his thinking,” <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/justice-stephen-breyer-retire-supreme-court-paving-way-biden-appointment-n1288042">NBC News</a> reported.
The Clinton-nominated Justice Breyer is one of three liberal justices on the Supreme Court, alongside Obama appointees Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan. Breyer&#8217;s decision to retire after more than 27 years on the Supreme Court will now provide President Joe Biden with the opportunity to appoint a successor, thereby maintaining the current 6-3 split between conservative and liberal justices.
In recent years, Justice Breyer had faced multiple calls to retire by progressive activists and Democratic Congress members in order to provide President Biden with a Supreme Court pick.
“Progressive group Demand Justice launched a new ‘Breyer Retire’ campaign Friday urging U.S. Supreme Court Stephen Breyer to ‘retire now’ from the high court, putting more pressure on the liberal-leaning justice to step down while Democrats narrowly have Senate control after Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death resulted in President Donald Trump choosing her successor,” <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210419041021/https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2021/04/09/progressives-demand-stephen-breyer-retire-so-biden-can-appoint-supreme-court-justice/?sh=b228e51ad962">Forbes</a> reported in April, 2021. 
“We are now firmly in the window when past justices have announced their retirement, so it’s officially worrisome that Justice Breyer has not yet said that he will step down,” Demand Justice Executive Director Brian Fallon said in a <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210419041021/https://twitter.com/AndrewSolender/status/1380516948618919939">statement</a> at the time. He called Breyer’s retirement “the only responsible choice.” 
“Democratic Rep. Mondaire Jones on Friday said Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer should retire this summer, becoming the first congressional member to publicly call for the 82-year-old justice to step down,” <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210418025000/https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/16/politics/mondaire-jones-stephen-breyer-supreme-court/index.html">CNN</a> reported that same month. 
&#8220;There&#8217;s no question that Justice Breyer, for whom I have great respect, should retire at the end of this term,&#8221; Jones <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210418025000/https://twitter.com/jiveDurkey/status/1383076388010348546">said</a> when asked whether Breyer should retire before the end of Biden’s presidency.
As NBC News explained, &#8220;Prof. Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of the law school at the University of California at Berkeley, wrote in a Washington Post op-ed in May urging Breyer to retire that there are times &#8216;when the stewards of our system must put the good of an institution they love, and of the country they love, above their own interests. They have to recognize that no one, not even a brilliant justice, is irreplaceable, and that the risks presented by remaining are more than hypothetical.'&#8221;
In August 2021, Justice Breyer admitted that he would likely retire at some stage.
“There are many things that go into a retirement decision,” he told <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/27/us/politics/justice-breyer-supreme-court-retirement.html">The New York Times</a>.
Speaking of a conversation with Justice Antonin Scalia on the subject of retirement, Justice Breyer recalled Scalia&#8217;s comments that, &#8220;‘I don’t want somebody appointed who will just reverse everything I’ve done for the last 25 years.&#8221; Breyer then noted that this would &#8220;inevitably be in the psychology&#8221; of his decision regarding retirement.
“I don’t think I’m going to stay there till I die — hope not,” Justice Breyer explained.
“There are a lot of blurred things there, and there are many considerations,” he said of a retirement decision. “They form a whole. I’ll make a decision.”
“I don’t like making decisions about myself,” Justice Breyer said.
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Justice Stephen Breyer To Retire From SCOTUS, Giving Biden A Court Pick

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Being a White House correspondent can be thrilling: I did it for more than decade, traveled to more than 100 countries &#8212; often on Air Force One &#8212; and had a front-row seat to history, like the time I sat 10 feet away from President George W. Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin when they signed a nuclear arms treaty.
But it can also be a big bore, like going on a weekend golf outing with the president, when the press pool breaks off and sits at a Wendy&#8217;s for six hours (I know, I&#8217;ve done it). And while Waco, Texas, is a decent town, spending a month there every summer for years while Bush chilled at his Prairie Chapel Ranch quickly lost its luster.
President Joe Biden, though, has brought a whole new level of boring to the press pool, a rotating group of reporters from three wire services and a TV network, along with a radio representative and a gaggle of photographers. They travel with the president and report back to their colleagues everything they hear and see, which they can then use as if they were there.
Below is a catalog of &#8220;pool reports&#8221; on Tuesday from Linda Feldmann, Washington Bureau Chief for The Christian Science Monitor. POTUS is short for &#8220;President Of The United States&#8221; &#8212; and all typos are hers.
Pool Report #3
<blockquote>Motorcade is rolling at 1:41 pm for OTR, destination unknown (to the pool). Potus spotted walking from oval to motorcade carrying red folder. He was wearing a suit, no overcoat.</blockquote>
Pool Report #4
<blockquote> Motorcade arrived 1:51 pm at Honey Made, a small business Drive was uneventful, motorcade traveled at low key pace, albeit running red lights.</blockquote>
Pol Report #5
<blockquote> Potus entered the small shop at 1:53. Chatted with woman who may be owner, out of earshot of pool.
“I’ll be darn” he said.
Mentioned Grandson out in California. Potus examined merchandise, selects a small sweatshirt.
Potus greets worker at cash register.
Owner explains shop has crafts, “most of the s
The reason so many small businesses are opening up is it’s domestically sourced, he said
Owner was a physicist and engineer before she opened store, Potus said.
“You need a degree in physics to be able to do thjs” he did
Potus admired delicate necklaces on wall.
Who’s that for? A pooler asked
“My wife”
Potus examined coaster with German shepherd pictured, sets it down. Picks up mug with Kamala Harris on it. “I’ll get this one too”
Q Ukraine
No change in Russian posture of forces 
Along Belarus border
“I made it clear to Putin early on if he went into Ukraine there would be consequences”
I don’t think his people even know for sure what he’s going to do
Forces in high alert are part of a nato operation
We have an article 5 obligation
I’ve spoken to every one kd our nato Allie’s, we are all in the same page
Q decision on deploying troops
May move some in the nearer term
It’s provocative 
It’s just what I said
From Otter:
So everyone from Poland on us has a reason to be concerned about what would happen and what spillover effects could occur. We have no intention of putting American forces or NATO forces in Ukraine. But we I said they&#8217;re going to be serious economic consequences if he moves. can you tell me what do you think sir, that the risk of an invasion is increasing or decreasing or steady just as it has been these recently.
….
There’s not gonna be any American forces in Ukraine
Please check transcript
More TK</blockquote>
Pool Report #6
<blockquote>Potus exited the store at about 2:12 pm, chatted with folks on sidewalk, walked across street to the Marine Barracks, greeted Marines on sidewalk.
Potus Walked down the sidewalk, pool walking ahead.
Next stop: Jeni’s Ice Creams. Potus entered shop at 2:20 pm. Pool holding on sidewalk</blockquote>
And then the big one.
Pool Report #8
<blockquote>Potus exited Jeni’s at 2:25, holding chocolate (by appearance) ice cream cone. 2 scoops &#8211; light colored flavor on bottom, darker ice cream on top. Waved the cone at the pool and went straight to the beast. Rolling at 2:28</blockquote>
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Hardly Working: Biden Gets Ice Cream, Press Covers Every Second

According to new polls from <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2022/01/25/biden-starts-year-two-with-diminished-public-support-and-a-daunting-list-of-challenges/">Pew Research</a>, <a href="https://news.gallup.com/poll/329384/presidential-approval-ratings-joe-biden.aspx">Gallup</a>, <a href="https://rollcall.com/2022/01/24/if-historys-a-guide-biden-aint-getting-any-stronger/">NBC News</a>, and <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/591117-biden-approval-rating-hits-new-low-poll?rl=1">Harvard/CAPS</a>, President Joe Biden&#8217;s disapproval rating has risen steadily over his first year in office. In each poll, at least 53% of the country &#8220;disapproved&#8221; of the overall job the 46th president is doing. All three polls were taken within the last month.
&#8220;Joe Biden began his presidency with positive job ratings and broad public confidence in his ability to deal with a number of major challenges – particularly the public health impact of the coronavirus,&#8221; Pew noted. &#8220;He starts his second year with diminished job approval and majorities expressing little or no confidence in him on many of these same issues, the coronavirus included.&#8221;
When asked, &#8220;Do you approve or disapprove of the way Joe Biden is handling his job as president?&#8221; just 41% of respondents responded that they approve. That figure is down 18 points since last April.
As highlighted by political consultant and author Ryan Girdusky, both the majority of men and women disapprove of the job he is doing as president. Fifty-eight percent of respondents answered disapprovingly of Biden, as did 55% of women.
Perhaps most surprisingly, Biden has a 63% disapproval rating from those between the ages of 19-29.
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(Pew Research) Do you approve/disapprove of Biden?
Overall: 41/56 Men: 39/58 Women: 42/55 White: 33/64 Black: 60/35 Hispanic: 52/46 Asian: 55/44 18-29 yr olds: 35/63 65+: 41/55 Post grads: 54/45 HS degree or less: 37/59
&mdash; Ryan James Girdusky (@RyanGirdusky) <a href="https://twitter.com/RyanGirdusky/status/1486319042688425996?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 26, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Pew also noted that Biden is even falling amongst Democratic voters:
<blockquote>Biden’s standing has further slipped among members of his own party after declining in September. About three-quarters of adults who identify as Democrats (76%) say they approve of Biden’s performance –down 7 percentage points from the fall.</blockquote>
Likewise, it is not just Pew Research that has found Biden to be falling out of popularity with the American people. Roll Call has <a href="https://rollcall.com/2022/01/24/if-historys-a-guide-biden-aint-getting-any-stronger/">predicted</a> that Biden&#8217;s &#8220;weak political standing looks like cement around the feet of the Democratic majorities in Congress.&#8221;
That is based on an NBC News poll conducted via which showed similarly that more than 51% of the country does not approve of the job Biden is doing as president:
<blockquote>According to its latest bipartisan poll, <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21182470-220027-survey-1-20-22-release" target="_blank" rel="noopener">conducted Jan. 14-18</a>, Biden’s job approval rating stood at 43 percent approve and 54 percent disapprove. A stunning 72 percent of respondents believed the country is on the wrong track, while 22 percent said it’s headed in the right direction. </blockquote>
&#8220;And even though the 2022 midterm elections are still more than 9 months away, history tells us Biden’s job rating isn’t likely to improve and more likely will deteriorate before Election Day,&#8221; Roll Call added.
A recent Harvard CAPS/Harris poll also showed that Biden&#8217;s approval rating is only getting lower:
<blockquote>Biden’s approval rating fell to 39 percent in the poll, which was released exclusively to The Hill. Of that, 18 percent of registered voters said they strongly approve of the job he’s doing, while 21 percent say they somewhat approve. Meanwhile, 53 percent said they somewhat or strongly disapprove of his job performance. 
That number is six points down from his approval rating in November, when he was at 45 percent, while his disapproval rating ticked up from 51 percent two months ago. His 39 percent approval rating is the lowest since the poll first started gauging it in March.</blockquote>
And Gallup has found also that 56% of Americans do not approve of Biden&#8217;s job performance. That number is up from 36% last January when Biden first took office.
Other polls have found that 60% of 2020 Biden voters <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/poll-just-20-of-voters-strongly-approve-of-biden-60-would-vote-for-someone-else-if-next-election-held-today">would support somebody else</a> other than the current commander-in-chief for re-election in 2024. But, the president seems oblivious to his unpopularity, even defending himself as having &#8220;over-performed.&#8221;
The Daily Wire recently <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/poll-just-20-of-voters-strongly-approve-of-biden-60-would-vote-for-someone-else-if-next-election-held-today">reported</a> that Biden was asked, &#8220;Did you overpromise to the American public what you could achieve in your first year in office? And how do you plan to course correct going forward?”
Biden retorted, &#8220;Look, I didn’t over-promise, but I have probably outperformed what anybody thought would happen.&#8221;
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Four Major Polls Find Biden’s Disapproval Rating Is Skyrocketing

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President Joe Biden presents himself as an avuncular good ol&#8217; boy from Scranton.
But he&#8217;s not that at all. Aside from his creepy behavior with women and children (c&#8217;mon, who sniffs hair?), he&#8217;s also a cold-blooded politician who has ruthlessly made his way in politics by slashing and burning his opponents.
Of course, he&#8217;s no different from his predecessors — you don&#8217;t get to be president unless you&#8217;re a real, well, let&#8217;s just say the nickname for Richard. The great thing about former President Donald Trump was clueing us into this: All these guys are calculating Machiavellis — Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Biden, every politician, really.
As they say, politics ain&#8217;t beanbag.
But Trump was the only one to own it, the first to show us behind the curtains to the real man.
Not Biden, though. He has put on this facade of being just a Regular Joe, walkin&#8217; and talkin&#8217; and dropping his G&#8217;s.
On the 2020 campaign trail, Biden pulled out a slew of Bidenisms, as The Washington Post dubbed his colloquialisms.
“My dad had an expression. He used to say, ‘Joey, you’re going to be a college man,'&#8221; he said at one stop. At another, he said, &#8220;If my mother were here, she’d say, ‘Joe, hush up and start taking some questions.'&#8221; Good o&#8217;l Joe, talking &#8217;bout his mammy and pappy.
But in the last week, the American people have gotten a glimpse of the real Wizard of Odd.
On Wednesday, Fox News&#8217; Jacqui Heinrich shouted a question to Biden on the Ukraine situation. &#8220;Why are you waiting on Putin to make the first move, sir?&#8221;
&#8220;What a stupid question,&#8221; Biden said under his breath but clearly intending for it to be heard.
And then Monday, he showed his true colors when Fox News&#8217; Peter Doocy asked: &#8220;Do you think inflation will be a political liability ahead of the midterms?&#8221;
&#8220;That’s a great asset, more inflation,&#8221; Biden spat sarcastically. &#8220;What a stupid son of a b****.&#8221;
Just hours after Biden took the inaugural oath in January 2021, he gathered up all the White House staff and other top federal employees and read them the Riot Act.
&#8220;I am not joking when I say this, if you are ever working with me and I hear you treat another colleague with disrespect, talk down to someone, I promise you I will fire you on the spot,&#8221; a fiery Biden pledged. &#8220;On the spot. No ifs, ands or buts.&#8221;
&#8220;You&#8217;re engaged in and you&#8217;re working with the most decent government in the world,&#8221; Biden said. &#8220;And we have to restore the soul of this country, and I&#8217;m counting on all of you to be part of that. And it&#8217;s not hyperbole. The only thing I expect with absolute certitude is honesty and decency.&#8221;
&#8220;Everybody &#8230; everybody is entitled to be treated with decency and dignity,&#8221; Biden told his staff. &#8220;That&#8217;s been missing in a big way the last four years,&#8221; he had said of the Trump era.
At his bizarre press conference on Wednesday, RealClearNews reporter Philip Wegmann said, &#8220;You ran on a return to civility,&#8221; before noting that he characterized everyone who opposed his voting bills — read: every Republican in Congress — as nothing more than racists.
&#8220;No, I didn’t say that,&#8221; Biden scowled. &#8220;That is an interesting reading of English. You — I assume you got into journalism because you liked to write.&#8221;
And Joe also proved this week to be a small man. He called Doocy — ostensibly to apologize for calling him a &#8220;son of a b****&#8221; — but he couldn&#8217;t quite pull the trigger.
&#8220;He cleared the air and I appreciate it,&#8221; Doocy told Sean Hannity on his Fox show. &#8220;We had a nice call.&#8221;
&#8220;That&#8217;s not an answer,&#8221; Hannity said, laughing. &#8220;That doesn&#8217;t sound like an apology.&#8221;
&#8220;He said, &#8216;It&#8217;s nothing personal, pal.&#8217; And I told him that I appreciate him reaching out,&#8221; Doocy said.
Yup, calling someone a &#8220;son of a b****&#8221; is not at all personal.
You gotta&#8217; wonder what color the sky is in Biden&#8217;s world.
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Three Biden administration negotiators working on trying to get Iran to enter a nuclear deal have left the team because they reportedly believed that Democrat President Joe Biden was being too soft on Iran.
&#8220;U.S. officials confirmed over the weekend that Richard Nephew, the deputy special envoy for Iran, has left the team. Mr. Nephew, an architect of previous economic sanctions on Iran, had advocated a tougher posture in the current negotiations, and he hasn’t attended the talks in Vienna since early December,&#8221; The Wall Street Journal <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/differences-splinter-u-s-team-negotiating-with-iran-on-nuclear-deal-11643059183">reported</a>. &#8220;Two other members of the team, which is led by State Department veteran Robert Malley, have stepped back from the talks, the people familiar said, because they also wanted a harder negotiating stance.&#8221;
The team has been divided over disagreements on how strictly existing sanctions should be enforced and at what point it should walk away from the table as some experts warn that Iran is trying to prolong talks while they continue to work on their nuclear program.
&#8220;The divisions come at a pivotal time, with U.S. and European officials warning that only a few weeks remain to rescue the 2015 deal before Iran acquires the know-how and capability to quickly produce enough nuclear fuel for a bomb,&#8221; the report added. &#8220;Under the agreement, the U.S. lifted most international sanctions on Tehran in exchange for strict but temporary limits on Iran’s nuclear work. The Trump administration exited the agreement, seeing it as insufficient to restrain Iran, and the Biden administration is trying to reverse course.&#8221;
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/israeli-pm-naftali-bennett-warns-world-that-imminent-action-coming-against-iranian-nuclear-program">signaled</a> to the world late last year that Israel was preparing to take action against Iran as it rapidly neared the point of having enough nuclear material to build a nuclear bomb, something that he vowed Israel would never allow to happen.
“Iran’s nuclear weapon program is at a critical point. All red lines have been crossed. Inspections — ignored. All wishful-thinking — proven false,” he said at the United Nations. “Iran is currently violating the IAEAs safeguard agreements — and it’s getting away with it. They harass inspectors and sabotage their investigations — and they’re getting away with it. They enrich Uranium to the level of 60 percent, which is only one step short of weapons-grade material — and they’re getting away with it.”
“Evidence which clearly proves Iran’s intentions for nuclear weapons in secret sites in Turquzabad, Teheran &amp; Marivan — is ignored,” he continued. “Iran’s nuclear program has hit a watershed moment. And so has our tolerance.”
“Words do not stop centrifuges from spinning. There are those in the world who seem to view Iran’s pursuit of nuclear weapons as an inevitable reality, as a done deal, or they’ve just become tired of hearing about it,” Bennett added. “Israel doesn’t have that privilege. We cannot tire. We will not tire. Israel will not allow Iran to acquire a nuclear weapon.”
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