split on the court, conservatives and liberals with justice stephen breyer being the senior on the court against the six conservatives. our understanding is that his intention is to step down at the end of the supreme court term, which would be in late june or early july, rather than the sometimes customs that supreme court justice follow, where they say that they ll step down upon the conformation of their successor. and it may be that justice breyer wants to make it more urgent for the senate to act in order to get hiss successor confirmed. white house, as you know, the president said he was committed to appointing a black female to the supreme court and the two names that have come most aufen up is a federal appeals judge in washington and leon dekruger, a justice on the california