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Then-Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer speaks during an event at the Library of Congress for the 2022 Supreme Court Fellows Program hosted by the Law Library of Congress, Feb. 17, 2022, in Washington. Breyer has become the honorary co-chairman of a nonpartisan group devoted to education about the Constitution. Breyer joins Justice Neil Gorsuch at a time of intense political polarization and rising skepticism about the court's independence. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, Pool, File)

Breyer, Gorsuch join to promote education about Constitution

By Mark Sherman - Associated Press

In this image from video provided by the Supreme Court, retired Supreme Court Associate Justice Stephen Breyer administers the Judicial Oath to Ketanji Brown Jackson as her husband Patrick Jackson holds the Bible at the Supreme Court in Washington, Thursday, June 30, 2022. (Supreme Court via AP)

Supreme Court Justice Breyer has options as a retiree

By Jessica Gresko - Associated Press

In this file photo, President Joe Biden speaks during a meeting with the National Governors Association in the East Room of the White House, Monday, Jan. 31, 2022, in Washington. Mr. Biden is under fire from Republicans for hypocrisy over his pledge to nominate a Black woman to the Supreme Court when, as a U.S. senator, he filibustered George W. Bush's nomination of Janice Rogers Brown, a Black woman, to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Biden accused of hypocrisy for filibuster against Black female jurist’s nomination

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

Supreme Court Associate Justice Stephen Breyer holds up a copy of the United States Constitution as he announces his retirement in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 27, 2022. Democratic Rep. Jim Clyburn and Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham say it would be good if the person named to replace retiring Breyer doesn’t have an Ivy League degree. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Supreme Court shouldn’t be covered in Ivy, 2 lawmakers say

By Jessica Gresko - Associated Press

President Joe Biden speaks after Supreme Court Associate Justice Stephen Breyer announced his retirement in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 27, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Biden hails Breyer, retiring liberal justice, as ‘model public servant’

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Nov. 30, 2018, file photo, the justices of the U.S. Supreme Court gather for a formal group portrait to include a new Associate Justice, top row, far right, at the Supreme Court Building in Washington. Seated from left: Associate Justice Stephen Breyer, Associate Justice Clarence Thomas, Chief Justice of the United States John G. Roberts, Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Associate Justice Samuel Alito Jr. Standing behind from left: Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch, Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Associate Justice Elena Kagan and Associate Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

SUPREME COURT NOTEBOOK: Audio arguments, with a side of fish

By JESSICA GRESKO and MARK SHERMAN - Associated Press

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer speaks to students, faculty and members of the public at Rhodes College on Thursday, Oct. 3, 2019, in Memphis, Tenn. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer says it would benefit U.S. judges to study how other countries handle cases related to important global subjects such as terrorism, immigration, civil rights, health and environmental issues.(AP Photo/Adrian Sainz)

Breyer discusses international law in Memphis college visit

By ADRIAN SAINZ - Associated Press

In this image made available on Tuesday April 16, 2019 flames and smoke rise from the blaze at Notre Dame cathedral in Paris, Monday, April 15, 2019. An inferno that raged through Notre Dame Cathedral for more than 12 hours destroyed its spire and its roof but spared its twin medieval bell towers, and a frantic rescue effort saved the monument's &quot;most precious treasures,&quot; including the Crown of Thorns purportedly worn by Jesus, officials said Tuesday. (AP Photo/Cedric Herpson)

Breyer finds hope, optimism in Notre Dame rebuilding effort

By JOCELYN NOVECK - Associated Press

In this Feb. 13, 2017, photo, United States Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer listens during a forum at the French Cultural Center in Boston. (AP Photo/Steven Senne) **FILE**

Supreme Court’s Breyer in Boston for hate speech event

Associated Press

This Tuesday, April 4, 2017, file photo shows the Supreme Court in Washington. The Supreme Court has already heard, but not decided, a major case about political line-drawing that has the potential to reshape American politics. Now the high court is taking up another and its decision to do so is a lingering mystery that likely won’t be resolved until June. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Justices struggle with partisan redistricting again

By MARK SHERMAN - Associated Press

Supreme Court’s Breyer to visit for event on hate speech

Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 13, 2017 file photo, Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer listens in Boston. Even Supreme Court justices forget to turn off their cellphones. A high court argument on Tuesday, April 25, 2017, was interrupted by the familiar sound of a ring chime, and Justice Stephen Breyer was the culprit. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)

Hello? Justice Stephen Breyer’s cellphone rings in court

Associated Press

Supreme Court Justice Breyer talks art _ in French

Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 21, 2016 file photo, Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer speaks in Washington. A Supreme Court copyright dispute over cheerleading uniforms Monday, Oct. 31, 2016, brought out the fashion maven in Breyer. &quot;The clothes on the hanger do nothing. The clothes on the woman do everything,&quot; Breyer said during an argument about whether the design of cheerleading uniforms can be protected under copyright law.(AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

Justice Breyer, the fashion maven, makes a colleague swoon

By MARK SHERMAN - Associated Press

Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer pauses before speaking at Yale Law School in New Haven, Conn., on Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2016. (Peter Hvizdak/New Haven Register via AP) ** FILE **

Stephen Breyer mentions Kim Kardashian robbery in oral arguments

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

Cardinal Donald Wuerl, Archbishop of Washington, shake hands with U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts as they leave St. Mathews Cathedral after the Red Mass in Washington on Sunday, Oct. 2, 2016. The Supreme Court's new term starts Monday, Oct. 3. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Unusual start to new term: No arguments on Jewish New Year

By MARK SHERMAN and JESSICA GRESKO - Associated Press

Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer pauses before speaking at Yale Law School in New Haven, Conn., on Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2016. (Peter Hvizdak/New Haven Register via AP) ** FILE **

Liberal justices espouse Second Amendment argument in Texas abortion regulation case

By Madison Gesiotto

Eddie Hood speaks during an interview at his home in Rome, Ga., Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2015. Hood was a potential juror in the murder trial of Timothy T. Foster who was convicted and sentenced to death for the murder of an elderly white woman in 1987. The U.S. Supreme Court will consider whether prosecutors improperly singled out potential black jurors, including Hood, in notes and then excluded them all from the death penalty trial. (AP Photo/ John Bazemore)

Timothy Foster case: Justices review DA’s choice of all-white murder trial jury

By Mark Sherman and Kate Brumback - Associated Press

FILE - In this July 7, 2010 file photo, media billionaire Barry Diller attends the annual Allen &amp; Co. Media summit in Sun Valley, Idaho. Diller is the financial backer of Aereo Inc., an Internet startup company that gives subscribers access to television programs on their laptop computers, smartphones and other portable devices. Broadcasters say Aereo is essentially stealing their programming by taking free television signals from the airwaves and sending them over the Internet without paying redistribution fees. The Supreme Court will hear arguments in the case Tuesday, April 22, 2014. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik, File)

Internet TV case: Justices skeptical, concerned

By MARK SHERMAN - Associated Press

FILE - This Oct. 8, 2013 file photo shows Cornell Woolridge of Windsor Mill, Md., takes part in a demonstration outside the Supreme Court in Washington as the court heard arguments on campaign finance. The Supreme Court struck down limits Wednesday in federal law on the overall campaign contributions the biggest individual donors may make to candidates, political parties and political action committees. The justices said in a 5-4 vote that Americans have a right to give the legal maximum to candidates for Congress and president, as well as to parties and PACs, without worrying that they will violate the law when they bump up against a limit on all contributions, set at $123,200 for 2013 and 2014. That includes a separate $48,600 cap on contributions to candidates. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

High court loosens reins on big campaign donors

By MARK SHERMAN - Associated Press