Liberals Push Breyer to Quit Supreme Court So Biden Gets a Pick

A progressive group has started a campaign to pressure a sitting Supreme Court justice to retire so a Democratic president can replace him, the first step in a broader effort to focus the party’s attention on the judiciary -- the way Republicans have for decades.

Yet so far, few Democratic lawmakers are joining the calls for 82-year-old Justice Stephen Breyer to step down.

The group, Demand Justice, is using social-media hashtags to get its point across, and also drove a truck-mounted electronic billboard around Capitol Hill last month, urging Breyer to retire.

Stephen Breyer

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The group’s co-founder and chief counsel Christopher ...