With the information Wednesday that Supreme Court docket Justice Stephen Breyer will probably be retiring on the finish of the present courtroom time period, the liberal night information broadcasts had been clearly excited by the information that President Joe Biden may have the chance to appoint somebody to the excessive courtroom. Whereas hyperventilating over the information that Biden is predicted to appoint an African American girl to the bench, the liberal networks made positive to remind viewers how “pragmatic” and non-partisan Breyer was.
ABC’s World Information Tonight led with the information, with anchor David Muir eagerly reporting “Justice Stephen Breyer set to retire, in response to sources conscious of his resolution. We await official phrase from the justice himself, who at 83 is the oldest Supreme Court docket Justice, probably the most senior member of the liberal wing.” Muir then laughably acknowledged that Breyer was a “staunch defender of a nonpartisan courtroom.”
Muir additionally needed viewers to suppose Breyer was a “consensus seeker with a practical imaginative and prescient of compromise” regardless of the shortage of proof for this declare. Afterward within the section, ABC senior nationwide correspondent Terry Moran repeated the liberal media narrative of the day:
Breyer has been a centrist and a practical justice, in search of methods to bridge the ideological divides and specializing in the real-world penalties of the courtroom’s rulings. And he passionately insisted the Supreme Court docket will not be a political establishment.
Over on CBS’ Night Information, anchor Norah O’Donnell who was clearly given the identical speaking factors as ABC introduced on the high of her program that Breyer “discovered himself within the dissent on a bench that has moved extra to the fitting with a 6-3 conservative majority.”
Senior White Home and political correspondent Ed O’Keefe was additionally fast to focus on the excellent news for Democrats when he was speaking with O’Donnell about how the information that Breyer was planning to retire was leaked before the justice needed:
The truth that it leaked now, even earlier than he was capable of inform some Supreme Court docket colleagues, provides the White Home and the Democratic-controlled Senate extra time to contemplate potential nominees, make the decide and maintain hearings, it additionally provides them further time ought to the President’s first alternative get rejected, or must withdraw and so they want extra time to select another person.
O’Keefe ended by exclaiming how Biden’s anticipated nomination of a “black girl forward of the midterm elections, the President will hope to inspire his social gathering’s base and present them that he made good on a marketing campaign pledge.”
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To learn the transcripts of every section click on “increase”:
ABC World Information Tonight
1/26/2022
6:32:35 PM
DAVID MUIR: We start tonight with the key information from the Supreme Court docket right this moment. Justice Stephen Breyer set to retire, in response to sources conscious of his resolution. We await official phrase from the justice himself, who at 83 is the oldest Supreme Court docket Justice, probably the most senior member of the liberal wing. Lengthy a staunch defender of a nonpartisan courtroom. Tonight, his impending retirement giving President Biden his first alternative to appoint a justice to the excessive courtroom. And with the midterms coming and a razor-thin majority within the Senate, indications tonight this might transfer swiftly. Justice Breyer nominated by President Invoice Clinton in 1994, confirmed by a vote of 87-9. He was referred to as a consensus seeker with a practical imaginative and prescient of compromise. On the courtroom for twenty-seven years. Justin Breyer has usually spoke of his respect for his fellow justices regardless of their perspective, however his resolution to step down, the timing, he absolutely is aware of is available in a nation deeply divided.
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6:34:30 PM
TERRY MORAN: On the courtroom, Breyer has been a centrist and a practical justice, in search of methods to bridge the ideological divides and specializing in the real-world penalties of the courtroom’s rulings. And he passionately insisted the Supreme Court docket will not be a political establishment.
CBS Night Information
1/26/2022
6:31:58 PM
NORAH O’DONNELL: Good night, and thanks for becoming a member of us. We will start tonight with main information from right here within the nation’s capitol. After almost three a long time on the Supreme Court docket, Justice Stephen Breyer is predicted to retire. Sources inform CBS Information that the 83-year-old will keep on the bench for the remainder of this consequential time period, deciding on main circumstances like abortion rights, and he’ll wait till the Senate confirms a successor. The liberal justice is beneath stress from the left to step down whereas Democrats preserve management of the Senate and the White Home, so his substitute will not change the ideological make-up of the nation’s highest courtroom. In recent times, Breyer has discovered himself within the dissent on a bench that has moved extra to the fitting with a 6-3 conservative majority. President Biden will now be given the chance to satisfy a marketing campaign promise and appoint the primary black feminine Supreme Court docket Justice.
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6:35:53 PM
ED O’KEEFE: Whereas it was extensively anticipated that Breyer would announce his retirement later this yr, by the top of the courtroom’s time period, the truth that it leaked now, even earlier than he was capable of inform some Supreme Court docket colleagues, provides the White Home and the Democratic-controlled Senate extra time to contemplate potential nominees, make the decide and maintain hearings, it additionally provides them further time ought to the President’s first alternative get rejected, or must withdraw and so they want extra time to select another person. And by nominating a black girl forward of the midterm elections, the President will hope to inspire his social gathering’s base and present them that he made good on a marketing campaign pledge.
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