{"id":21238,"date":"2022-01-28T12:06:51","date_gmt":"2022-01-28T20:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=21238"},"modified":"2022-01-28T12:07:13","modified_gmt":"2022-01-28T20:07:13","slug":"mitch-mcconnell-blocks-justice-stephen-breyer-from-retiring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2022\/01\/28\/mitch-mcconnell-blocks-justice-stephen-breyer-from-retiring\/","title":{"rendered":"Mitch McConnell Blocks Justice Stephen Breyer From Retiring"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"965\" height=\"543\" src=\"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Onion18.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Onion18.jpeg 965w, https:\/\/occupysf.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Onion18-150x84.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/occupysf.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Onion18-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/occupysf.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Onion18-768x432.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/occupysf.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Onion18-250x141.jpeg 250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 965px) 100vw, 965px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theonion.com\/mitch-mcconnell-blocks-justice-stephen-breyer-from-reti-1848427236\">Wednesday 1:55PM<\/a>  (theonion.com)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>WASHINGTON\u2014In a controversial political maneuver that sparked outrage from Democrats and their allies, sources confirmed Wednesday that&nbsp;Senate Minority Leader&nbsp;Mitch McConnell had blocked Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer from retiring. \u201cIt is the Senate\u2019s constitutional right to act as a check on Stephen Breyer,\u201d said McConnell, who blasted the 83-year-old justice\u2019s plan to step down from the bench as contrary to the founding fathers\u2019 vision that Supreme Court members would serve until the day they keeled over and died.&nbsp;<strong>\u201c<\/strong>The radical Democrats are clearly getting desperate&nbsp;and see Stephen Breyer\u2019s retirement as their only recourse. There is simply no way I can allow it. If Justice Breyer wants to retire, he\u2019ll have to wait until 2024 and let the American people decide if he\u2019s finished.\u201d At press time, sources confirmed that McConnell had used an arcane legal precedent to prevent Breyer from purchasing a condominium in Florida.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday 1:55PM (theonion.com) WASHINGTON\u2014In a controversial political maneuver that sparked outrage from Democrats and their allies, sources confirmed Wednesday that&nbsp;Senate Minority Leader&nbsp;Mitch McConnell had blocked Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer from retiring. \u201cIt is the Senate\u2019s constitutional right to act as a check on Stephen Breyer,\u201d said McConnell, who blasted&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2022\/01\/28\/mitch-mcconnell-blocks-justice-stephen-breyer-from-retiring\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21238"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21238"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21242,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21238\/revisions\/21242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}