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Stephen Breyer Is Reading Aeschylus While the Supreme Court Burns Around Him

The justice stayed far away from the Brett Kavanaugh controversy in an interview on Thursday.
Source: Jonathan Ernst / Reuters

Stephen Breyer, the liberal justice who is rounding out two and a half decades on the Supreme Court, doggedly avoided saying anything remotely relevant to the scandal surrounding Brett Kavanaugh in an interview on Thursday.

Breyer’s potential future colleague has been publicly accused of sexual assault or misconduct by three women. Kavanaugh’s nomination. Breyer, however, had nothing to say about the importance of judicial independence or the effort to elevate the judiciary above partisanship.

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