Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer is retiring, NBCNews reported, giving President Biden a chance to nominate a replacement.
It's unknown whom Biden will pick as his nominee. In his first year in office, Biden nominated 62 women to the federal judiciary, including 24 Black women, a White House official told NBC.
The court in this term alone has heard major cases on abortion, guns and religion — three perennially controversial topics in U.S. politics — even as its approval rating sinks to new lows. This week, the court said it would consider lawsuits challenging universities that consider an applicant's race in admissions, a practice long decried on the right.to sticky legal questions, in the current term has reliably voted with the liberal bloc alongside Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan.
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