The Democratic congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez added her voice on Sunday to those of liberals who think the US supreme court justice Stephen Breyer should retire this summer.
Some liberals are keen to give Joe Biden the opportunity soon to pick a younger judge to bolster the left-leaning wing of the bench as it weathers a dominant conservative majority achieved under the Trump administration, and while the Democrats hold power in the White House and Congress.
Breyer, 82, is under pressure as the most senior member of the court’s liberal minority, following Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death last September at the age of 87.
“It’s something I think about, but I would probably lean
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