# Stephen Breyer to retire **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 26, 2022, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-breyer-to-retire/958436 "2022-01-26T18:21:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2022, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-breyer-to-retire/958436/2 "2022-01-26T18:23:02Z")
There’s an existing thread on the topic in Politics & Elections, which had its title updated today to reflect the new news: > [@Justice Stephen Breyer Should Retire Right Now (Is Now Retiring)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/justice-stephen-breyer-should-retire-right-now-is-now-retiring/937952/): > > Or so says Paul Campos in [an opinion piece for the NY Times today](https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/15/opinion/stephen-breyer-supreme-court.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage) (possibly paywalled). And I have to say, he makes a pretty compelling argument, at least from a political perspective. Consider that because of the extremely thin nature of their Democratic Senate control, the shift of a single seat from the Democrats to the Republicans or even one vacancy in the 50 seats now controlled by the Democratic caucus would probably result in the swift reinstallation of Mitch McConnell as the majority… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-breyer-to-retire/958436)._