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Stephen Gerald Breyer (/ ˈ b r aɪ. ər / BRY-ər; born August 15, 1938) is an American lawyer and jurist who served as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1994 until his retirement in 2022.
Jackson is widely considered to be, like Breyer, an ideological liberal. [ 46 ] The most volatile seat appears to be Seat 10 (light blue lines), which was held by conservative Pierce Butler until 1939, then liberal Frank Murphy until 1949, then moderate-conservative Tom Clark until 1967, then strong liberal Thurgood Marshall until 1991, and ...
Active Liberty: Interpreting Our Democratic Constitution is a 2005 book by United States Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer. [1] The general theme of the book is that Supreme Court justices should, when dealing with constitutional issues, keep "active liberty" in mind, [1] which Justice Breyer defines as the right of the citizenry of the country to participate in government.
Terminiello's chief accuser was Ira Latimer, who at the time was a Communist but later turned against the party and its ideology, ... Justice Stephen Breyer's dissent in the 2017 case Ziglar v.
Breyer dissented from the Court's brief per curiam decision, which held that a Montana state law banning political expenditures by corporations was precluded by Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission. Breyer wrote that he disagreed with the holding in Citizens United and would support reconsidering it. Even accepting that decision ...
Breyer's 8-0 opinion held that a municipality can only be liable under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for an injury caused by that municipality's own "policy or custom", regardless of whether the plaintiff seeks prospective relief or monetary damages.
This was the twenty-eighth and final term of Associate Justice Stephen Breyer's tenure on the Court; Breyer retired on June 30, 2022. Stephen Breyer 2021 term statistics 6
Breyer, who watched his liberal colleague Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg opt not to retire when President Barack Obama could have named a like-minded replacement, said he would miss being on the ...