Via Supreme Court judge, Biden points to African American

Finally good news for Joe Biden.

Stephen Breyer, a constitutional judge appointed in 1994 by Bill Clinton, has decided to step back, retire and pave the way for the American president to make his first appointment to the Supreme Court.

An appointment that could concern an African American woman for the first time in the history of the United States, as promised at the time by Biden himself.

Breyer's retirement, 83, has not yet been formalized but should be announced in the next few hours and take place by the summer.

She won't change the current balance of the High Court, with an overwhelming majority of six Republican-nominated judges against three Democratic-nominated judges, but she should avert the danger of an even more conservative turn by the highest body of the US federal judiciary.