Biography on Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer

Stephen G. Breyer was born into a Jewish, Democratic, and politically involved family in California August 8th, 1938. His mother was a member of the San Francisco Democratic Party and for the League of Women Voters, and his father was a lawyer and legal counsel for the San Francisco Board of Education. He attended Lowell High School in San Francisco and later was accepted by both Harvard and Stanford. He decided to go to Stanford, and …

…from advising abortion. He was an advocate of cutting government regulation, not as advantageous for businesses, but as in the interest of the people. He later changed his position and became pro-business. He was appointed as the 108th Supreme Court Justice by President Clinton August 3rd, 1994 (the second time he was nominated for the position, the first time he was nominated Clinton chose Ruth Bader Ginsburg instead because he didn't agree with Breyer's unfriendly personality).