Is Chuck Schumer on board the #BreyerRetire bandwagon?
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) appears to have a subtle (or not-so-subtle) message for Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer...and it starts with "re" and ends with "tire." In a "Dear Colleague" letter circulated Friday morning, Schumer outlines congressional business as usual  including infrastructure, the American Rescue Plan, and voting rights legislation  until about the tenth paragraph, which he concludes by off-handedly writing, "As always, Senate Democrats stand ready to expeditiously fill any potential vacancies on the Supreme Court should they arise." As some have been quick to point out, Schumer's suspicious close is almost certainly a hidden-in-plain-sight call for Breyer to step down. This, in Schumers Dear Colleague, is the hardest nudge Ive seen from a Democratic senator re: Breyer (which is to say, it is not hard at all but notable) pic.twitter.com/KF6t5RyiZf  Seung Min Kim (@seungminkim) July 9, 2021  Schumer's like, here we are, a bunch of Democrats ready to fill a Supreme Court vacancy that doesn't exist yet HI STEPHEN BREYER  Jennifer Bendery (@jbendery) July 9, 2021  Breyer has faced increasing calls to vacate his position on the Supreme Court so Democrats can fill the spot before potentially losing their Senate majority in the 2022 midterms. Now, even Schumer may have climbed aboard the bandwagon.