Stephen Breyer
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
Stephen Gerald Breyer (/ˈbraɪər/; born August 15, 1938) is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. He was appointed by President Bill Clinton in 1994. Breyer is generally associated with the more liberal side of the Court.[1]
Stephen Breyer | |
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| Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States | |
| Assumed office August 3, 1994 | |
| Nominated by | Bill Clinton |
| Preceded by | Harry Blackmun |
| Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit | |
| In office March 1990 – August 3, 1994 | |
| Preceded by | Levin H. Campbell |
| Succeeded by | Juan R. Torruella |
| Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit | |
| In office December 10, 1980 – August 3, 1994 | |
| Nominated by | Jimmy Carter |
| Preceded by | Seat established |
| Succeeded by | Sandra Lynch |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Stephen Gerald Breyer August 15, 1938 San Francisco, California, U.S. |
| Spouse(s) | Joanna Hare (m. 1967) |
| Children | 3 |
| Education | Stanford University (BA) Magdalen College, Oxford (BA) Harvard University (LLB) |
BackgroundEdit
Breyer is of Jewish descent.[2] He has been an Associate Justice since 1994. Breyer generally favors a liberal interpretation of the law; he is pro-choice and pro-civil liberties. Breyer had the second-longest tenure as the most junior justice on the bench. Breyer is also the only justice to appear on a quiz show (Wait Wait Don't Tell Me). Before being a judge, he was a professor at Harvard Law School and a judge on the First Circuit Court of Appeals. Breyer is an Eagle Scout.
ReferencesEdit
- ↑ Kersch, Ken (2006). "Justice Breyer's Mandarin Liberty". 73. University of Chicago Law Review: 759.
As his decision to characterize both the New Deal and Warren Courts as centrally committed to democracy and 'active liberty' makes clear, Justice Breyer identifies his own constitutional agenda with that of these earlier courts, and positions himself, in significant respects, as a partisan of midcentury constitutional liberalism.
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