Justice Stephen Breyer has announced that he's stepping down from the US Supreme Court. While he's far from the first Justice to retire, Breyer is responding to mounting pressure for the Court's older, liberal members to leave while Democrats control the Senate and Presidency. Political influence on the Court has been mounting ever since Reagan's controversial nomination of Robert Bork in 1987, and has carried through to the constitutional violations and nomination battles that shaped current SCOTUS.

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