Announcing his retirement, Justice Stephen Breyer appeared to be 'pointedly talking about threats facing the country.'
The Supreme Court justice appeared to be"pointedly talking about threats facing the country," said one observer.Officially announcing his retirement Thursday, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer quoted former President Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address as the outgoing jurist suggested the country was embroiled in something like the"great civil war" of the nation's past.
"This is a complicated country," said the justice, adding that the U.S. was conceived as"an experiment" as he held up a copy of the U.S. Constitution. "We are now engaged in a great civil war to determine whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure," Breyer added, quoting the words of Lincoln.
The justice announced his retirement just over a year after former President Donald Trump incited a deadly riot at the U.S. Capitol which was aimed at overturning the results of the 2020 election—an incident that Trump's allies continue to downplay as the former presidentThe U.S. also faces the coronavirus pandemic and a right-wing misinformation campaign which has been
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