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So it's going to be a 6-3 court when Trump leaves office
Damn, Democrats sure ed up trying to force Hillary on the country
Trump says Kennedy visited the White House before he announced his retirement
From CNN’s Kevin Liptak
President Trump says Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy visited the White House before his retirement announcement.
Justice Kennedy told his colleagues that he delivered personally the retirement letter to the President.
So it's going to be a 6-3 court when Trump leaves office
Damn, Democrats sure ed up trying to force Hillary on the country
Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy just announced that he retiring from his position by the end of the next month.
Kennedy, who was sworn in as the 104th justice of the Supreme Court in 1988, has been involved in coauthoring major legal decisions that have shaped the United States as we know it today.
Here are a few of them:
June 29, 1992 — He angered conservatives by coauthoring, with Justices Sandra Day O'Connor and David Souter, the opinion of the court in Planned Parenthood v. Casey, to uphold Roe v. Wade.
March 1, 2005 — He wrote the majority opinion for the 5-4 ruling in Roper v. Simmons stating that executing killers who were under age 18 when they committed their crimes is uncons utional.
April 18, 2007 — He voted with the conservatives in the 5-4 decision in Gonzales v. Carhart. Justice Kennedy wrote the majority opinion to uphold the nationwide ban on partial birth abortions.
June 12, 2008 — In Boumediene v. Bush, Kennedy wrote the majority 5-4 opinion and assessed that the language of the Cons ution grants the Guantanamo Bay prison detainees the right to seek habeas corpus.
June 25, 2012 — He wrote the opinion of the court in Arizona v. United States, overturning three sections of Arizona's 2010 immigration law.
June 26, 2013 — Kennedy wrote the majority opinion of the court in United States v. Windsor, striking down part of the Defense of Marriage Act.
June 26, 2015 — He wrote the landmark majority opinion of the court in Obergefell v. Hodges, making same-sex marriage legal in all 50 US states.
June 23, 2016 — Kennedy wrote the majority opinion in Fisher v. University of Texas, upholding the right of universities to consider race as one factor in admissions.
So it's going to be a 6-3 court when Trump leaves office
Damn, Democrats sure ed up trying to force Hillary on the country
that is why the fbi was trying to stop trump!
Trump will push for swift confirmation of a new Supreme Court justice -- before the midterms
From CNN's Jeff Zeleny
A senior White House official says President Trump will push for the swift confirmation of a Supreme Court justice "before the midterm elections."
A list of well-established conservatives is in place, so a nomination is expected to come "within weeks," the official said.
U.S. Senate Democratic Whip Durbin, who is also a member of the powerful Senate Judiciary Committee, just released a statement calling on the Senate to wait to consider President Trump's nominee to replace Justice Kennedy until the new Congress is seated in January.
He cited precedent set by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's refusal to hold a vote on Merrick Garland.
"Senator McConnell set the new standard by giving the American people their say in the upcoming election before Court vacancies are filled," Durbin said. "With so much at stake for the people of our country, the U.S. Senate must be consistent and consider the President’s nominee once the new Congress is seated in January."
Careful not to go blind, ducks
"Fox News Sunday" anchor Chris Wallace said the impending retirement of Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy will be "the biggest moment of the Trump presidency."
He said this judicial nomination will trump the meeting with Kim Jong Un, tax cut legislation and Trump's moves to deregulate the economy.
"This moment is the biggest opportunity so far," said Wallace, since 81-year-old Kennedy was the deciding vote many times in the middle of four conservative justices and four left-leaning justices.
What a dumb
The only thing Mitch is thinking
Obama won in 2012 presumably with the right to nominate judges for four years and have them voted on like we have done since 1776
Anthony Kennedy retirement latest reason Democrats risk losing Supreme Court for generations
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opini...umn/708784002/
Huh?
Anthony Kennedy Is Not the Supreme Court’s Swing Justice Anymore
In all 14 5-4 decisions this term
that divided along ideological lines,
Kennedy has sided with the conservatives.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics...stice-anymore/
After serving on the Supreme Court for more than 30 years, Justice Anthony Kennedy has announced his retirement -- leaving an open seat on the nation's highest court for President Trump to fill.
Kennedy, 81, said his retirement will be effective July 31. Last year, his former law clerk Neil Gorsuch took over the Supreme Court seat once occupied by the late Justice Antonin Scalia.
Read on for a look at Kennedy's time on the nation's highest court and what's next for the vacant seat.
Kennedy has been on the Supreme Court for more than 30 years
Kennedy first took his seat on the Supreme Court on seat February 18, 1988. He was nominated by former President Ronald Reagan, a Republican.
He’s been a Supreme Court justice longer than any current member.
Kennedy wasn't always considered to be a swing vote on the court
By the end of his tenure, Kennedy was considered to be a swing vote on the court -- although it wasn't always that way. When he was first seated, Kennedy was considered to be part of the Court's more conservative block.
In April 2018, The New York Times' editorial board publicly asked Kennedy to avoid retiring, saying, "Your record is more conservative than liberal, but there's no question that you are less of an ideologue than anyone President Trump would pick."
He reaffirmed a woman's right to an abortion
In a statement regarding his retirement, the White House praised Kennedy for having "authored landmark opinions in every significant area of cons utional law, most notably on equal protections under the law, the separation of powers and the First Amendment's guarantees of freedom of speech and religion."
In 1992, Kennedy joined Justices David Souter and Sandra Day O'Connor in co-writing the Supreme Court's opinion in Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey. That case upheld women's right to have an abortion but also gave states more authority in how to regulate it.
In keeping with his penchant for believing in individual rights Kennedy agreed with the Court's decision to legalize same-sex marriage in 2015.
Expect this vacancy to become a major point in this year's midterms
A Supreme Court vacancy will likely become a key issue in a midterm congressional election year, when control of the Senate is at stake.
That body will consider Trump's latest high court nominee, requiring only a simple majority for confirmation. GOP leaders changed the rules when Neil Gorsuch was being considered, to get rid of the 60-vote procedural filibuster threshold.
Fox News' Shannon Bream, Bill Mears and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Kaitlyn Schallhorn is a Reporter for Fox News. Follow her on Twitter: @K_Schallhorn.
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Senator Jeff Merkley
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I’m worried about Roe v. Wade.
yep, abortion will be a crime again. 1000s of dead women and unwanted babies to follow, keeping poor women in poverty, just like Christ wants
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Kamala Harris: Trump's list of potential nominees "are complete non-starters"
how many dead children with abortation
very few woman would be dead if they have a baby with todays tech and advancement
if I go kill a 26 month old that crosses the boarder illegally I would be in jail
woman kill their babies legally now
look at pics of womb they are living PEOPLE
do not want kids stop ing or use a condom!
Feinstein says there should be no consideration of a nominee until the midterm election
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