Breyer Backs Long Supreme Court Terms, Doubts Leak Source, As Post-Retirement Book Critiques Conservative Legal Theory
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Former Justice Breyer supports Supreme Court term limits if the terms are long to avoid justices thinking about their next job while serving.
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Breyer faced pressure from progressives to retire while Democrats held Congress and White House to ensure a liberal successor.
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Breyer stepped down after the Dobbs decision overturned Roe v. Wade; he opposed overturning Roe.
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Breyer has "theories" but doubts a Supreme Court judge leaked the Dobbs draft decision.
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Breyer criticizes the textualist and originalist judicial philosophies favored by conservatives in his new book.