Recently retired Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer has become the honorary co-chairman of a nonpartisan group devoted to education about the Constitution
at a time of intense political polarization and rising skepticism about the court's independence.
The justices' decision to work together “is especially meaningful in this polarized time,” Jeffrey Rosen, the center’s president and CEO, said. In recent months, the court with six Republican-appointed conservatives and three liberals appointed by Democrats also has expanded gun rights, weakened the separation of church and state and constrained the Biden administration's efforts to combat climate change and the coronavirus pandemic.Challenges to affirmative action in education and key election-related cases highlight the term that begins in October and seem likely to produce more sharp splits along ideological lines.
Still, Breyer said last week at a lawyers' convention in Chicago that he remains optimistic about the American legal system.
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