When Stephen Breyer was nominated to the Supreme Court by Democratic President Bill Clinton in 1994, just nine Republican senators voted against him.
The confirmation process for the nominee to take Breyer’s place upon his retirement, playing out in an evenly divided Senate that Democrats control due to Vice President Kamala Harris’s tiebreaking vote, is unlikely to be so bipartisan.
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