The retirement of US Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer sent shockwaves through Washington DC and ended Republican hopes that the next court vacancy would occur while the GOP controls the US Senate.
The court underwent significant changes under Donald Trump’s administration, when over the course of four years, then-president Trump oversaw the confirmation of three new justices to the bench, a third of the total bench, with lifetime appointments, and firmly shifting the nation’s high court to the right,
