“Is Justice Breyer’s exit politics or pragmatism?” Robert Barnes of The Washington Post has this report.

“Biden’s Supreme Court Risk; If he chooses a radical to replace Breyer, it will stimulate GOP turnout in November”: Columnist Kimberley A. Strassel will have this op-ed in Friday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

“Stephen Breyer’s Loss to the Supreme Court: The pragmatic liberal’s replacement may come from the new legal left.” This editorial will appear in Friday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

“Recovering a Conservative State Legal Theory; Conservative jurisprudence has a long and unfortunate history of ignoring state power”: Jeffrey Bristol has this post at the “Law & Liberty” blog.

“The Willful Naïveté of Stephen Breyer”: Jeff Shesol has this guest essay online at The New York Times.

“New Justice Will Have Little Power to Thwart Supreme Court’s Rightward Lurch; The replacement of Justice Stephen G. Breyer with another liberal is unlikely to alter the basic dynamic at the court or to slow its accelerating conservative ambitions”: Adam Liptak of The New York Times has this report.

“What Conservatives Really Mean When They Say Biden’s Potential SCOTUS Nominees Are ‘Unqualified'”: Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern have this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

“One U.S. Circuit Court Is Breaking Every Rule in the Book to Push Its Radical Agenda”: Brianne Gorod has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

“If the Supreme Court bans affirmative action, it continues the U.S. legacy of racial discrimination”: Law professor Erwin Chemerinsky has this essay online at The Los Angeles Times.

“Biden’s Pledge To Nominate A Black Woman Justice Is Big Test Of The Left’s Organizing Power Around The Courts; Groups that fought Trump’s nominees are hoping to build on that momentum to support what’s expected to be a historic Supreme Court pick by Biden”: Zoe Tillman and Nidhi Prakash of BuzzFeed News have this report.

“Statements from the Supreme Court Regarding Justice Stephen G. Breyer’s Retirement”: The Public Information Office of the U.S. Supreme Court has posted these statements online.

“The Practical Erudition of Stephen Breyer: The eloquent former Eagle Scout quoted Oscar Wilde, believed in pragmatism, understood Congress, oozed decency, and wanted the law to work for people.” Law professor Garrett Epps has this essay online at Washington Monthly.

“Ilya Shapiro, on Heels of Georgetown Law Hiring, Tweets That Biden’s SCOTUS Pick Will Be a ‘Lesser Black Woman’; Shapiro’s ‘tweets are at odds with everything we stand for at Georgetown Law and are damaging to the culture of equity and inclusion that Georgetown Law is building every day,’ Georgetown Law Dean William M. Treanor wrote in a statement to Law.com on Thursday”: Christine Charnosky of Law.com has this report.

“Recalling Breyer’s Quirky Hypotheticals and Epic Questions: Justice Breyer livened up oral arguments with odd hypotheticals and rambling questions that kept advocates on their toes.” Tony Mauro has this post at his “The Marble Palace Blog.”

“Justice Breyer’s retirement gives Biden his first opportunity for a high court pick”: Nina Totenberg had this audio segment on today’s broadcast of NPR’s “Morning Edition.”

Today’s broadcast also included an audio segment titled “With Justice Breyer retiring, Biden will have a Supreme Court pick.”

“Stephen Breyer Was the Right Justice for the Wrong Age”: Linda Greenhouse has this guest essay in today’s edition of The New York Times.

“Biden announces Breyer’s retirement, pledges to nominate Black woman to Supreme Court by end of February; President Joe Biden’s next nominee will help shape the court for years to come and act as a political tool to motivate the Democratic base”: Shannon Pettypiece of NBC News has this report.

“Biden: 1st Black woman justice on high court ‘long overdue.'” Colleen Long, Zeke Miller, and Darlene Superville of The Associated Press have this report.

“NBC News spoils Breyer’s retirement announcement”: Erik Wemple has this essay online at The Washington Post.

“The Court Loses Its Chief Pragmatist: With the upcoming retirement of Justice Stephen Breyer, the country moves into a more ideologically divided future.” Jeffrey Rosen has this essay online at The Atlantic.

“Stephen Breyer’s Decision to Retire Is in Keeping with His Careful Supreme Court Tenure; Breyer knows what a major crossroads the Court is at, with the conservative super-majority feeling its strength”: Amy Davidson Sorkin has this Daily Comment online at The New Yorker.

“Justice Breyer’s Legacy”: Law professor Michael C. Dorf has this essay online at Justia’s Verdict.

“Breyer’s role on the Supreme Court and the hole he’s leaving”: Joan Biskupic of CNN has this news analysis.

“Supreme Court prospect Brown Jackson was ‘star in the making’ at Miami’s Palmetto High”: Aaron Leibowitz, Jay Weaver, and Bryan Lowry of The Miami Herald have this report.

“Another testy Supreme Court battle is the last thing America needs — but it’s probably what lies ahead”: Stephen Collinson of CNN has this news analysis.