The signs are that Justice Stephen Breyer won’t be retiring from the U.S. Supreme Court anytime soon.  (See here.)  But, if he does, David Carrillo and Brandon Stracener — respectively, the executive director and a senior research fellow at the California Constitution Center at Berkeley Law — in The Recorder put in a plug for President Biden to nominate California Supreme Court Justice Leondra Kruger to fill the vacancy.

Praising Kruger as “brilliant, progressive, practical and consensus-driven,” Carrillo and Stracener argue that appointing her “would be a victory for diversity on several important fronts,” including state high court experience and being from a western state.

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Justice Kruger’s California Supreme Court career