Justice Breyer Retires, Leaving Warnings In His Wake
Justice Stephen Breyer will step down from the bench Thursday, departing from the Supreme Court as it lurches ever more dramatically to the right.
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Breyer is leaving the Court as it swings farther from his beliefs and philosophy, heralding an era where many of the hardest-won rights of the last century are under dire threat. In his final weeks as an associate justice, he was relegated to the dissent in some of the Court’s highest profile cases.
He led the dissent in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen, in which the conservative majority knocked down a 100-year-old New York gun licensing law that’ll make it easier for people to obtain concealed carry permits. That law had no historical analogue, claimed Justice Clarence Thomas for the majority, adding that government interest in the safety of its citizens is an insufficient basis upon which to maintain it.
In his ever-polite manner, Breyer picks apart the ludicrousness of basing constitutional rights on what amounts to bad, or at least selective, history.
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