WASHINGTON — Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer’s retirement provides President Joe Biden and Democrats a golden opportunity to move past recent setbacks and reengerize Black and progressive voters ahead of the midterms.
That is, if everything goes smoothly.
Appointing the nation’s first Black female Supreme Court justice, as Biden has pledged to do, could blunt the political headwinds Democrats are facing in the November election, particularly amid Biden’s sagging approval ratings and after the embarrassing back-to-back defeats of voting rights legislation and his massive Build Back Better spending bill.
