pressure for him to step down. most of the considerations in mind and i simply have to weigh them and think about them and decide when the proper time is. i have also said that i hope i don t die on the supreme court. reporter: any nominee of president biden s succeed justice breyer would maintain the 6-3 ideological split. bill clinton, nominated breyer, then a federal judge in boston in 1994. he was confirmed, 87-9. he quickly established himself as one of the supreme court s moderate liberals who believed that interpreting the constitution must be practical, changing with the times. the reason that i do that is because law in jenny think grows out of communities in people who have some problems they want to solve. reporter: he wrote the court s opinion striking down a state law that banned some long-term abortions. he supported affirmative action and other civil rights measure. in a widely noted dissent in