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Democrats got a gift this week, with the pending retirement of Justice Stephen G. Breyer coming at a time when they desperately needed to shift the narrative from the forces stacked up against them in the midterms.
As we reported, Breyer’s decision, nine months before Election Day, gives Democrats plenty of time to appoint another liberal justice while they still control a Senate majority that — while exceedingly narrow — almost assures that Republicans won’t have any power to stop them.
