Retired Justice Stephen Breyer believes the Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade two years ago marked a “deeply regressive feature” of the approach to law taken by the high court’s Republican-appointed majority, according to his new book.
Breyer, 85, was an appointee of former President Bill Clinton who retired in 2022, just days after the pivotal Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision that held states can enact their own laws restricting or limiting abortion access, a 6-3 ruling led by the Republican-appointed majority.
The justice’s new book Why I Chose Pragmatism, Not Textualism laid out his argument critiquing the “originalism” jurisprudence often adhered to by Republican-appointed judges to interpret the Constitution.
FILE – Then-Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer speaks during an event at the Library of Congress for the 2022 Supreme
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