What is Stephen Breyer?
{{Infobox judge |name = Stephen Breyer |image = Stephen Breyer, SCOTUS photo portrait.jpg |office = [[Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States|Associate Justice of the Supreme Court<br>of the United States]] |nominator = [[Bill Clinton]] |term_start = August 3, 1994 |term_end = June 30, 2022 |predecessor = [[Harry Blackmun]] |successor = [[Ketanji Brown Jackson]] |office1 = Chief Judge of the [[United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit]] |term_start1 = March 1990 |term_end1 = August 3, 1994 |predecessor1 = [[Levin H. Campbell]] |successor1 = [[Juan R. Torruella]] |office2 = Judge of the [[United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit]] |nominator2 = [[Jimmy Carter]] |term_start2 = December 10, 1980 |term_end2 = August 3, 1994 |predecessor2 = ''Seat established'' |successor2 = [[Sandra Lynch]] |birth_name = Stephen Gerald Breyer |birth_date = {{birth date and age|1938|8|15}} |birth_place = {{nowrap|[[San Francisco]], [[California]], U.S.}} |death_date = |death_place = |spouse = {{marriage|Joanna Hare|1967}} |children = 3 |education = [[Stanford University]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]])<br>[[Magdalen College, Oxford]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]])<br>[[Harvard University]] ([[Bachelor of Laws|LLB]]) }} '''Stephen Gerald Breyer''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|b|r|aɪər}}; born August 15, 1938) is an American politician, academic and lawyer. He was an [[Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States|Associate Justice]] of the [[Supreme Court of the United States]]. He was appointed by President [[Bill Clinton]] in 1994. Breyer was generally associated with the more [[Liberalism in the United States|liberal]] side of the Court.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Kersch |first=Ken |year=2006 |title=Justice Breyer's Mandarin Liberty |publisher=University of Chicago Law Review |volume=73 |page=759|quote=As his decision to characterize both the New Deal and Warren Courts as centrally committed to democracy and 'active liberty'