Stephanie Coontz: Judge bryer came of age at a time when by partisan deal making was still not just possible, but very common. She says the skill set that he had, this ability to brok or those sorts of by partisan deal s, i think, is now largely obsolete. "I ask the senate to consider and to promptly confirm the nation of judge stephen bryer," she said.
Vox’s Ian Millhiser says American politics shifted during Justice Stephen Breyer’s career, until he no longer had a place in them.
This episode was produced by Amina Al-Sadi and Victoria Chamberlin, edited by Matt Collette, engineered by Paul Mounsey, fact-checked by Laura Bullard and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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