Retired Supreme Court Justice Breyer takes aim at former colleagues in stunning slam

Former Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer criticized his colleagues on the high court over their interpretation of the Constitution.

The former justice, who retired in 2022, is set to release a book titled, laying out an argument critiquing the methods used by many Republican-appointed justices to interpret the Constitution.

The argument between “living Constitution” and textualist interpretations isn’t a new one. But Breyer laid out three major concerns with originalism, questioning the qualifications of Supreme Court justices to do some of the work required to determine what a text’s original authors intended.

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