Breyer’s retirement gives Biden a fresh opportunity for a badly needed victory

“The country was to the right of the Warren Court a half century ago, so debates over the court helped [President Richard] Nixon,” Bill Kristol, a conservative strategist, said in an email exchange. “I suspect the conservative appointees on the court are now somewhat to the right of the country, as suggested, for example, by [Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr.] joining the liberals so often. So a court debate could help the liberals — if they seem moderately liberal.”