at the white house. he plans to stay on until the end of the term in june and until a replacement is confirmed. he is 83 years old and the oldest and most senior liberal justice. he was nominated in 1994 by president clinton. with us now is jessica schneider. tell us what more we know about his decision. we know he understands the political realities of this moment for democrats. he is someone who previously worked for the senate judiciary committee before becoming a judge and has said in the past he would consider two things when deciding to leave. his health and the court. so with no known health issues, it s clear the court s is his main focus. he s been facing unrelenting political pressure over the past year from progressives. they have been demanding he step down to leave plenty of time for president biden to name a successor, but at the same time, he has been really outspoken about the perils of viewing the supreme court politically. he published a book in septembe
even though she didn t want to get into the details until breyer announcing this decision that it s a hypothetical, she did appear to confirm the big looming question, whether or not president biden intends to stand by his campaign pledge to nominate the first black woman to serve as a justice on the supreme court when that vacancy becomes official. just to give you a sense of how much the president s day has been up ended by this news, he was meeting with a number of ceoearlier today. we were in the room. all of the reporters in the room trying to get a quick reaction from the president to this news. take a listen. as the opportunity to decide what he or she will do and announce it on their own. there s been no announcement from justice breyer. let him make whatever statement he will be make. i ll be happy to talk about it later. thank you so much. you really can t underscore enough what a momentous decision this is for a sitting u.s. president to make. now president bid
Court justice stephen breyer plans to retire. white house press secretary reiterated the president s come pain promise that in the event of a vacancy, he would not nate the first black woman to the court. president has stated and reiterated his commitment to nominating black woman to supreme court and certainly stands by that. justice breyer plans to stay on until june and until a replacement is confirmed. what more is the white house saying? certainly this big news out of the supreme court is consuming the day here at the white house. as you heard white house press secretary jen psaki, as soon as she took the podium getting a lot of questions about this news.