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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

62% : This last court term, Breyer was chosen by Chief Justice John Roberts to write a 7-2 opinion allowing the Affordable Care Act to remain in place, and he also wrote the opinion on an important school speech case that divided the court 8-1.
61% : He said that "what is at stake" is the "right of a condemned inmate not to be subjected to cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the Eighth Amendment."
50% : In his later years on the court, he was best known for a dissent he wrote in 2015 in a case concerning execution by lethal injection.
48% : The justices have already heard one case that could overturn Roe v. Wade and another that could expand gun rights.
47% : The law is the strictest in the nation and bars abortion before most women even know they are pregnant.
43% : The case at hand was not about abortion, but he made clear he was worried about the stability of the law and the future of long-standing rulings such as Roe v. Wade.
41% : He sought consensus when possible but remained true to his liberal roots in areas such as the death penalty, affirmative action, abortion, gun rights and campaign finance.
40% : He took the opportunity to write separately and suggest to the court that it take up the constitutionality of the death penalty.
39% : "And so I put together this evidence to say this is not what people expected when they wrote the cases upholding the death penalty more than 40 years ago," Breyer told CNN's Wolf Blitzer in 2015.
37% : Indeed, in 2019, after the appointments of Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh had turned the court to the right, Breyer stayed up most of the night once to write a dissent when the court denied a stay of execution for an Alabama inmate challenging the state's three-drug protocol.

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