Justice Stephen Breyer Officially Retires After Nearly Three Decades in Supreme Court

Justice Stephen Breyer has officially retired.

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The 83-year-old justice stepped down from the Supreme Court as of noon on Thursday (June 30) after nearly 30 years of service as an associate justice.

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The justice, was appointed to the Court by President Bill Clinton in 1994

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He first began his career as a law clerk for Justice Arthur Goldberg, going on to be an administrative law professor at Harvard Law.

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He has been the counsel to the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, and an appellate judge for nearly 14 years

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During his confirmation hearings, he vowed to “remember that the decisions I help to make will have an effect upon the lives of many, many Americans.”

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