BREAKING: Justice Stephen Breyer to step down on Thursday

"This past January, I wrote to inform you of my intent to retire from regular active service as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, upon the Court rising for its summer recess," the letter began.

"You have nominated and the United States Senate has confirmed the Honorable Ketanji Brown Jackson to succeed me in office, and I understand that she is prepared to take the prescribed oaths to begin her service as the 116th member of this Court."

Breyer continued on to state that on Thursday, the court will hand down all remaining opinions left for this term.

"Accordingly, my retirement from active service… will be effective on Thursday, June 30, 2022, at noon," he wrote.

"It has been my great honor to participate as a judge in the effort to maintain our Constitution and the Rule of Law," the letter concluded.

Breyer, who was widely considered to be a more liberal justice, announced his retirement in late January.

He was nominated by President Clinton in 1994, replacing Justice Harry Blackmun.

Prior to Breyer’s retirement announcement, Biden had said on numerous occasions that he would nominate a black woman to the Supreme Court.

That nomination came into being one month later, after it was announced that the president would be nominating Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to fill Breyer’s seat.

In April, after numerous tense hearings in the Senate, Jackson was officially confirmed as Breyer’s replacement.

Senate Republicans grilled Jackson during the hearing over her lenient sentences for child pornographers, as well as a response refusing to say what a woman is.