Justice Breyer.....how was his record?? More conservative or liberal......

[a kennedy]

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Pretty solid liberal. But you could look it up on Google.

[a kennedy]

5. Ha ha, so much easier to just ask here, we have the best "googlers" eh?

[servermsh]

2. Breyer is a fantastic intellect. Great judge. On the liberal side.

However, we can't risk having him stay due to his age. I hope he retires soon.

[Blasphemer]

3. Excellent judge. Very liberal, but not as much as Sotomayor.

The only question is when he'll retire. He could wait until 2023 but that risks a GOP senate so I think it'll happen by next year.

[elleng]

4. A stalwart liberal.

'After 11 years on the Supreme Court, Breyer says he is comfortable in describing how he goes about interpreting the Constitution, the statutes and the regulations that come before the court. And without saying so, his book is something of a rejoinder to justice Scalia's 1997 manifesto entitled: A Matter of Interpretation: Federal Courts and the Law.

Scalia's view, called originalism, instructs judges to look to the words of the Constitution and what they meant at the time the document was written. He is critical of those like Breyer, who argue for a more flexible and adaptive interpretation of the Constitution's words.

Breyer applies his theory of Constitutional interpretation to some of the most divisive legal questions tackled by the high court in recent years -- affirmative action, privacy, separation of church and state and campaign finance.'

https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4929668