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Panicked progressives weren’t shy about telling Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer to stop judging and start golfing or gardening. “Justice Breyer should retire right now” was the headline over a typical see-ya-later-judge opinion piece in the New York Times last year. Not to be outdone, the Washington Post had one, too. And the Breyer-must-go cry hardly was limited to the opinion pages. There were marches and protests that boarded on unacceptable harassment of a learned, pragmatic liberal on the Supreme Court. Such demands were at best unseemly and at worst damaging to our democracy. Like e…