Justice Breyer and the "Stress" of Confirmation

Fifteen summers after he was confirmed to a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court, Associate Justice Stephen Breyer said his Senate hearings were "stressful" even though "my confirmation was supposed to be pretty noncontroversial." In an interview with TheAtlantic.com at the Aspen Ideas Festival earlier this month, Breyer remembered what it was like to testify: "There are 17 senators on one side of the table, and I'm on the other side. And people are watching me on television, and I'm not used to that."