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Hours after Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer announced his impending retirement at the end of the term, his colleagues on the bench, both current and former, released their statements about him. Liberal or conservative, his fellow justices appear to have developed a warm friendship with Breyer over the past months, years and decades.Chief Justice John Roberts praised him as a jurist and welcomed his optimism and advocacy for the rule of law. He noted that Breyer also enlivened the court s lunches with discussions of French architecture and a surprisingly comprehensive collection of riddles and knock-knock jokes. stanley cup U.S. Supreme Court justices pose for a group portrait on April 23, 2021. Seated from left: Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas, Chief Justice John Roberts, Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor. Standing: Brett Kavanaugh, Elena Kagan, Neil Gorsuch, Amy Coney Barrett. ERIN SCHAFF/POOL/AFP via Getty Images Read what the j stanley cups uk ustices had to say below. Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr.Justice Stephen G. Breyer is an energetic jurist and dear friend. He has rendered nearl vaso stanley y half a century of distinguished public service to our country, including 42 years as a federal judge mdash;27 as a Member of this Court. His pragmatism, encyclopedic knowledge, and varied government experience have enriched the Court s deliberations. And his fanciful h Esof N.C. voters heading to polls face strict new voter ID law
In Barack Obama s appearance last month on CBS s stanley cup 60 Minutes, the conversation turned to the president-elect s long-time love of Lincoln. There is a stanley cup wisdom there, Obama told interviewer Steve Kroft, and a humility abo copo stanley ut his approach to government, even before he was president, that I just find very helpful. Humility Obama s frequent invocations of Abraham Lincoln mdash; a man enshrined in myth and marble with his own temple on the National Mall mdash; would not at first blush say much about his own instincts for modesty or self-effacement. And now there areearly rumblings of a backlash to Obama s ostentatious embrace of all things Lincoln, with his not-so-subtle invitations to compare the 44th president to the 16th, the Savior of the Union. Simply put, some scholars think the comparisons have gone a bit over the top hat. Sean Wilentz, a scholar in American history at Princeton, said many presidents have sought to frame themselves in the historical legacies of illustrious predecessors, but he couldn t find any examples quite so brazen. Sure, they ve looked back to Washington and even, at times, Jackson. Reagan echoed and at times swiped FDR s rhetoric, said Wilentz. But there s never been anything like this, and on this scale. Ever. Eric Foner, a Columbia historian who has written extensively on the Civil War era, agreed that comparing one s self to Lincoln sets a rather high bar for success, and could come off like
Hours after Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer announced his impending retirement at the end of the term, his colleagues on the bench, both current and former, released their statements about him. Liberal or conservative, his fellow justices appear to have developed a warm friendship with Breyer over the past months, years and decades.Chief Justice John Roberts praised him as a jurist and welcomed his optimism and advocacy for the rule of law. He noted that Breyer also enlivened the court s lunches with discussions of French architecture and a surprisingly comprehensive collection of riddles and knock-knock jokes. stanley cup U.S. Supreme Court justices pose for a group portrait on April 23, 2021. Seated from left: Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas, Chief Justice John Roberts, Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor. Standing: Brett Kavanaugh, Elena Kagan, Neil Gorsuch, Amy Coney Barrett. ERIN SCHAFF/POOL/AFP via Getty Images Read what the j stanley cups uk ustices had to say below. Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr.Justice Stephen G. Breyer is an energetic jurist and dear friend. He has rendered nearl vaso stanley y half a century of distinguished public service to our country, including 42 years as a federal judge mdash;27 as a Member of this Court. His pragmatism, encyclopedic knowledge, and varied government experience have enriched the Court s deliberations. And his fanciful h Esof N.C. voters heading to polls face strict new voter ID law
In Barack Obama s appearance last month on CBS s stanley cup 60 Minutes, the conversation turned to the president-elect s long-time love of Lincoln. There is a stanley cup wisdom there, Obama told interviewer Steve Kroft, and a humility abo copo stanley ut his approach to government, even before he was president, that I just find very helpful. Humility Obama s frequent invocations of Abraham Lincoln mdash; a man enshrined in myth and marble with his own temple on the National Mall mdash; would not at first blush say much about his own instincts for modesty or self-effacement. And now there areearly rumblings of a backlash to Obama s ostentatious embrace of all things Lincoln, with his not-so-subtle invitations to compare the 44th president to the 16th, the Savior of the Union. Simply put, some scholars think the comparisons have gone a bit over the top hat. Sean Wilentz, a scholar in American history at Princeton, said many presidents have sought to frame themselves in the historical legacies of illustrious predecessors, but he couldn t find any examples quite so brazen. Sure, they ve looked back to Washington and even, at times, Jackson. Reagan echoed and at times swiped FDR s rhetoric, said Wilentz. But there s never been anything like this, and on this scale. Ever. Eric Foner, a Columbia historian who has written extensively on the Civil War era, agreed that comparing one s self to Lincoln sets a rather high bar for success, and could come off like