Breyer joked, “Why is the world in such a mess?” after he was reminded that he’d written 525 legal opinions.
Retired Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer — who left the High Court days after the ruling that ended abortion protections — told a crowd of lawyers in Chicago Saturday evening that he remains hopeful about the American legal system.
Over time, he said, “you have a growing body of doctrine ... which we hope, as Martin Luther King , arcs towards justice. It doesn’t always, but we hope. And those parts of the profession working together, I think, in general, do reach in that direction, at least some of the time and not always.” “With sorrow — for this Court, but more, for the many millions of American women who have today lost a fundamental constitutional protection — we dissent,” they wrote.Chicago Tribune editors' top story picks, delivered to your inbox each afternoon.Breyer’s retirement took effect June 30, just days after the abortion ruling was announced. The departing justice swore in his successor, federal appellate court judge Katanji Brown Jackson,a nominee of President Joe Biden.
“For 28 years when I sat on that court, I see in front of me people of every race, every religion and every point of view possible,” he said Saturday.The same week as the late June abortion ruling, the Supreme Court also expanded gun rights, striking down a New York law that required people to demonstrate a need to carry a concealed weapon.
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