Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer plans to retire, paving the way for Biden pick

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : The justices on Monday said they would hear a pair of cases involving the use of race in college admissions, adding affirmative action to the docket likely in its next term.
48% : The first saving the Affordable Care Act from a Republican-led effort to dismantle it and the second setting limits on schools' ability to punish students for off-campus speech.
45% : He will step down from the court after a blockbuster term that included cases on the Second Amendment, abortion and religious liberty.
44% : The former president's impact on the Supreme Court reignited a focus for Democrats on its future, as they warned the impact of the conservative bench would be starkly felt in disputes involving hot-button issues like abortion, the Second Amendment and the environment.
42% : A vocal critic of the death penalty, he has repeatedly called for the high court to reconsider its constitutionality and, in a 2015 dissent in a case involving Oklahoma's three-drug protocol for lethal injection, wrote he believes "it highly likely that the death penalty violates the Eighth Amendment."

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