mentioned to name what will likely be a historic choice for breyer s successor. likely to be a black woman. but well before that, we are expecting an official announcement from the supreme court about breyer s retirement. that could be at some point this afternoon, possibly after the white house joint appearance, but this admittedly has been an unconventional rollout of the retirement announcement. we know justice breyer conveyed to the white house he planned to step down from the court but did not tell president biden dirdirect ly and as of yesterday, still not formally received the letter about his retirement intentions. if you compare that with the last tilme a justice retired, justice anthony kennedy, to informed president trump personally and that s, after that point when the supreme court announced the retirement that afternoon, that was when the term wrapped up in june 2018, we do know, however, that justice breyer would finish out this term because it s packed