Supreme court: Stephen Breyer ‘did not want to die on bench’, says brother

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Stephen Breyer, the supreme court justice who announced his retirement this week, did not want to die on the bench".

So his brother, the federal judge Charles Breyer, told the Washington Post at the end of a momentous week in US politics.