‘It’s about time’: Black women celebrate representation in Biden’s promised SCOTUS nominee

Though Biden’s nominee will make history, UW-Madison political science professor Howard Schweber said the new justice likely won’t have a large impact on case decisions. “Justice Breyer’s retirement and replacement changes nothing on the ideological balance of the court,” Schweber said. “This makes no difference at all in terms of the outcome of any likely cases that we’re paying attention to.”