U.S Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer Announces Resignation, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson To Ascend

Soon to be former Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer has just announced his retirement will be effective starting Thursday at noon, which will be only hours following the two last opinions that the Court will issue during this term before they go into summer recess, the next term will not begin until October 3rd. Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, who was nominated by Biden and confirmed by the Senate to succeed Breyer, is "prepared to take the prescribed oaths to begin her service as the 116th member of this Court," said Breyer in a letter to Biden announcing his final notice of retirement. Breyer, 83, who was appointed to the court in 1994 by then-President Bill Clinton, announced his pending retirement in January, saying he would step down at the end of the court's current term. "It has been my great honor to participate as a judge in the effort to maintain our Constitution and the Rule of Law," Breyer said in his letter.