Former Justice Breyer Criticizes Conservative Supreme Court

The conservative embrace of originalism and textualism is both misguided and doomed, according to Breyer.

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer poses during an interview with Agence France-Presse at the Supreme Court in Washington, on May 17, 2012. Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty Images

Former Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, who retired almost two years ago, criticized the increasingly conservative lean of the court that accelerated in the Trump years.

The liberal former justice made the comments in a Politico interview that was published this week.