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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.
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
This was the seventh term of Associate Justice Stephen Breyer's tenure on the Court. Stephen Breyer 2000 term statistics 9 Majority or Plurality: 3 Concurrence: 1
Former Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer is aiming to get back on the bench, this time as a visiting judge on a federal appeals court. Breyer, who retired from the high court in 2022, ...
Breyer dissented from the Court's denial of stay, in a case arguing that executing the petitioner after he spent 33 years on death row constitutes cruel and unusual punishment. References "2010 Term Opinions of the Court" .
Breyer stated that he continued to believe the case presented a nonjusticiable political question, but joined the Court's opinion because its precedent in Zivotofsky v. Clinton (from which he had dissented) precluded resolving the case on that ground.
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 dissented from the Court's denial of a stay of execution, and denial of certiorari to a death row inmate who "is 76 years old, blind, suffers from diabetes, is confined to a wheelchair, and has been on death row for 23 years." Breyer believed "that in the circumstances he raises a significant question as to whether his execution would ...