Law Justice Anthony Kennedy to retire from Supreme Court

Washington (CNN)Justice Anthony Kennedy, a conservative who provided key votes for same sex-marriage, abortion access and affirmative action, will retire from the Supreme Court.

Kennedy's decision to step down could transform the Supreme Court for generations. President Donald Trump will have his second opportunity to nominate a justice and will likely replace Kennedy with a young, conservative jurist. That would create a bloc of five staunch conservative justices who could move the court further to the right and cement a conservative majority for the foreseeable future.
The nomination battle will likely ignite a firestorm on Capitol Hill as it comes just a year after Republicans changed the rules of the senate in order to push through the nomination of Justice Neil Gorsuch, Trump's first nominee.
This story is breaking and will be updated.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/27/politics/anthony-kennedy-retires/index.html

 

[Karellen]

The salt flow will be unimaginable. Drumpf will nominate Hitler McNazi, killing billions of troons at once.

 

[tehpope]

Another shitstorm is brewing. Can't wait

 

[Trash Eater]

Kennedy is the one who flipped to the liberal side on many key rulings. This could be a big gain for conservatives if Trump gets in a hardliner to replace him.

 

[Fagatron 69]

Ginsburg is 85, if she dies then Trump will get to replace her too. Damn, that'd be 3 out of 9 justices.

 

[Red Sun]

>conservative
>same-sex marriage
>abortion access
>affirmative action

"Conservative" and "Republican" are related terms, but they aren't fucking synonyms.

 

[RodgerDodger]

This was telegraphed in Kennedy’s Janus opinion. It was a wonderfully brutal Fuck You in defense of free speech. You could just sense it was his last word. His going out with a bang.

 

[Krokodil Overdose]

")Justice Anthony Kennedy, a conservative [...]" Holy shit, five words in and they're already wrong. Welcome to the American MSM.

 

[Unpleasant]

Between gay cakes, immigration, and public union rulings this is getting to be the second worst month for liberals ever, after November 2016 of course.

I'm just glad Trump will finally be able to take a break from building ties with Israel to gas all the Jews at last with this justice pick.

")Justice Anthony Kennedy, a conservative [...]" Holy shit, five words in and they're already wrong. Welcome to the American MSM.

It's not fake news if they define everything to the right of Nancy Pelosi as conservative.

 

[jace821]

Looking forward to 6-3 decisions.

 

[doubledigitgendergap]

The libs on Reddit are losing their shit right now. Brace yourself lads

 

[RodgerDodger]

So what’s the betting pool on replacements? I’m guessing Don Willett as the most likely. As one of the finalists when he went with Gorsuch. Allison Eid And Amy Barrett are two others to watch. Both were recently Senate confirmed. Barrett is the one that got Feinstein in trouble for harassing her about being Catholic. I could see Trump rattling the Dem’s cage again in that way.

 

[Tookie]

Ginsburg is 85, if she dies then Trump will get to replace her too. Damn, that'd be 3 out of 9 justices.

It's entirely possible Clarence Thomas will retire in the next year or so to make sure Trump gets to choose his replacement as well.

 

[Herbert Hoover]

I'd say Kennedy was the most moderate judge on the panel, and often times the only vote that wasn't along party lines. He's also arguably the single person most responsible for gay marriage being nationwide. I'll give him credit for not clinging to his party's politics all the time.

 

[Unpleasant]

It's entirely possible Clarence Thomas will retire in the next year or so to make sure Trump gets to choose his replacement as well.

Yep, and the midterms are no impediment as there is no realistic chance of the Republicans losing the senate in 2018.

 

[kcbbq]

")Justice Anthony Kennedy, a conservative [...]" Holy shit, five words in and they're already wrong. Welcome to the American MSM.

When you decide that everything to the right of Bernie Sanders is Hitler reincarnated, yes, he was on the conservative wing.

I expect another Gorsuch or Roberts, though, very conservative on paper but jumping sides at odd times. I don't think there was a real hard-line strict constructionist on the finalist last time. Scour the last list for a reliably conservative woman from flyover country when setting your odds.

Supreme Court justices rarely turn out how their confirmation hearings would indicate, though. Kennedy and O'Connor were Reagan nominees...

 

[Sissy Galvez]

I’m so glad the leftists/SJW are getting everything they deserve.

Donald Trump gets two Supreme Court justice appointments lmfao.

 

[XYZpdq]

I still think that the impending justice retirement / deaths are the main reason the GOP hasn't tardraged themselves to death at Trump at a pace only slightly less hard than the dems.

 

[Krokodil Overdose]

Supreme Court justices rarely turn out how their confirmation hearings would indicate, though. Kennedy and O'Connor were Reagan nominees...

Though it's worth noting that Kennedy was the understudy. Reagan's first nominee for that slot was Bork, the treatment of whom gave rise to "bork" as a verb.

 

[PantsFreeZone]

He said we would win so much, we'd get tired of winning. The man is less of a politician and more of a warlock.