Justice Breyer admits he’s thinking about retirement. Good

A belated happy birthday to Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, who turned 83 earlier this month. Breyer just granted an interview to another newspaper, and it’s clear he’s got a wisdom commensurate with his years, and not only on matters of constitutional law. After the untimely deaths of Antonin Scalia and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Americans who want a reasonably balanced high court have reason to fear Breyer will hang on to his seat as long as humanly possible. Scalia, of course, passed away late in Barack Obama’s second term. The president named the eminently qualified Merrick Garland to repl...