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If television's a babysitter, the Internet is a drunk librarian who won't shut up.

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NBC News’ Pete Williams had the scoop of the day. He was the first to break the news that Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer will retire after 27 years on the court. He’ll step down when the Supreme Court term ends in June.

At 83, the liberal Breyer is the Supreme Court’s oldest justice. Democrats and other liberals have publicly pressured Breyer to step down while there is a Democratic president and while Democrats have control of the Senate, which confirms Supreme Court nominees. When he was campaigning for president, Joe Biden said, given the chance, he would nominate a Black woman to the court.

The Washington Post’s Robert Barnes wrote, “The two women most often mentioned as replacements are Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, a former Breyer Supreme Court clerk who in June was confirmed to join the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, and California Supreme Court Justice Leondra Kruger, a former Justice Department official who has represented the government at the Supreme Court as deputy solicitor general.”