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“President Biden, Look West to Replace Justice Breyer”

July 2, 2021

The signs are that Justice Stephen Breyer won’t be retiring from the U.S. Supreme Court anytime soon.  (See here.)  But, if he does, David Carrillo and Brandon Stracener — respectively, the executive director and a senior research fellow at the California Constitution Center at Berkeley Law — in The Recorder put in a plug for President Biden to nominate California Supreme Court Justice Leondra Kruger to fill the vacancy.

Praising Kruger as “brilliant, progressive, practical and consensus-driven,” Carrillo and Stracener argue that appointing her “would be a victory for diversity on several important fronts,” including state high court experience and being from a western state.

Related:

Justice Kruger’s California Supreme Court career

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