Stephen Breyer: “I thought Roe should not be overturned. I thought Casey should not be overturned.”

We have to have public support, and that comes primarily from people believing that we do our job. We use reason. We don`t look to just what`s popular. And that`s where you`re seeing the paradox.

The senators are going to reflect what you want, so you better stop it. And the way you stop it is, when you disagree with somebody, you talk to them about it. You talk to them about it. You try to convince them. You participate. You vote…

I can only do this for so much longer. The Democrats will lose control of the Senate, in the next election. And if that happens, the next opening will not be for two years. So, I have to do it now.

It may be a political process that leads to the nomination of a judge. And a president may think, ah, I have got someone who will always agree with me. That's what Teddy Roosevelt thought when he appointed Oliver Wendell Holmes. He got him…