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
 
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Krokodil Overdose said:
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.
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Also the reason why everyone up for confirmation refuses to answer speculative questions now (I believe this was pioneered by Ginsburg in '93?). Judges aren't letting that shit work anymore.
 
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These reactions are about what I expected.

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PantsFreeZone said:
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.
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Winning isn’t quite the word for it. Largely thanks to the one appointment in Gorsuch in two days we have seen the reign of the Judicial Activist rolled back, the Democrats driven to bankruptcy (Janus), and the court swung to the Originalists for what will likely be 10-15 years. All on the backs of a series of major decisions upholding free speech and outlawing government compelled speech or speech restrictions. It’s hard to tell if Trump is a 4 dimensional chess master, or the worlds luckiest idiot? But either way it’s working for him.
 
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Is it really luck, though? I remember when Scalia died, it was like I'd been hit with a flashbang- because, like everyone following politics at the time, I "knew" that Hillary was going to win and get the chance to turn the SCOTUS into the deranged far-left HR department for the country that the activist left wants. It was only with Trump threading the needle through the rust belt and pulling out the win (I'll never get tired of seeing that NYT needle swing from left to right over the course of the night) that all the rest of this springs from.

As Kossh might have said, he was the right man, in the right place, at the right time.
 
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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.
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Willett would make a great justice, I wouldn't mind seeing him on the court.
 
The confirmation vote for Trump's pick is going to be...Interesting.
Doubtless it'll be along Party lines. Unless McCain hauls his nearly dead corpse back to the Senate for a quick vote, the GOP will have exactly 50 votes to play with. But thats were it gets interesting.
There are quite a few Dems up for re-election this year in deep Red States. So it's entirely possible that, say, Manchin or Heitkamp break ranks with the rest of Dems to score easy points with their constituents.
But if that doesn't happen then things probably come down to the Flake Factor. For those not in the know recently Flake made the news for threatening to hold up Judicial appointments if he doesn't get votes on his pet Cuckservative issues like Immigration Reform.
Now Flake is retiring this year so he has nothing to lose at this point. So it really comes down to wether or not the little NeoCon rat is spiteful enough to torpedo his own Party one last time.
If that did happen then in all likely hood the confirmation vote would just have to wait till the next session of Congress. And as has been already been noted in this thread it take nothing short of an act of God for the GOP to lose the Senate.
TLDR This is gonna be good.
 
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I'm almost mildly confused about why "progressives" suddenly think Kennedy was literally Hitler and a Nazi. He's the single man most responsible for federal gay marriage legality in America. Kennedy was the moderate swing-vote that defended the Obamacare mandate.

Then I remember how SJWs and proggies work: Your past achievements mean nothing if you step out of lockstep. Apostates were never true believers! Burn him!
 
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BR55 said:
The confirmation vote for Trump's pick is going to be...Interesting.
Doubtless it'll be along Party lines. Unless McCain hauls his nearly dead corpse back to the Senate for a quick vote, the GOP will have exactly 50 votes to play with. But thats were it gets interesting.
There are quite a few Dems up for re-election this year in deep Red States. So it's entirely possible that, say, Manchin or Heitkamp break ranks with the rest of Dems to score easy points with their constituents.
But if that doesn't happen then things probably come down to the Flake Factor. For those not in the know recently Flake made the news for threatening to hold up Judicial appointments if he doesn't get votes on his pet Cuckservative issues like Immigration Reform.
Now Flake is retiring this year so he has nothing to lose at this point. So it really comes down to wether or not the little NeoCon rat is spiteful enough to torpedo his own Party one last time.
If that did happen then in all likely hood the confirmation vote would just have to wait till the next session of Congress. And as has been already been noted in this thread it take nothing short of an act of God for the GOP to lose the Senate.
TLDR This is gonna be good.
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Manchin's recent comments do speak to someone tired of the childishness. I'm always surprised he doesn't switch parties (also Susan Collins on the other side) . He's as odd of a modern Dem as Ben Nighthorse Campbell was in the House in the early 90s, and he flipped for the Contract wave. The Senate is the only home anymore for red dems and blue repubs in national level politics. There used to be lots. Senate's a weird place.
 
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BR55 said:
The confirmation vote for Trump's pick is going to be...Interesting.
Doubtless it'll be along Party lines. Unless McCain hauls his nearly dead corpse back to the Senate for a quick vote, the GOP will have exactly 50 votes to play with. But thats were it gets interesting.
There are quite a few Dems up for re-election this year in deep Red States. So it's entirely possible that, say, Manchin or Heitkamp break ranks with the rest of Dems to score easy points with their constituents.
But if that doesn't happen then things probably come down to the Flake Factor. For those not in the know recently Flake made the news for threatening to hold up Judicial appointments if he doesn't get votes on his pet Cuckservative issues like Immigration Reform.
Now Flake is retiring this year so he has nothing to lose at this point. So it really comes down to wether or not the little NeoCon rat is spiteful enough to torpedo his own Party one last time.
If that did happen then in all likely hood the confirmation vote would just have to wait till the next session of Congress. And as has been already been noted in this thread it take nothing short of an act of God for the GOP to lose the Senate.
TLDR This is gonna be good.
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Odds are McCain has passed away and his replacement appointed before this comes to a vote. His Twitter ravings have gone pretty silent lately.
 
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So... what did kennedy actually say? People keep saying he made some grand statement upon retirement, but I can't find it.

I love all the reports talking about the narrow decisions like roe v wade, gay marriage, and stuff like that. With the implicit message that those were times when the court got it right. Now, of course, if those get overturned in narrow decisions, obviously the court must be wrong.

Huh? What, the democrats that put in their favored justices didn't pick someone that matched their bias? Sotomayor seemingly doesn't even know what the constitution is. When someone talks about partisan hacks, I think of her. Every decision she writes is all about how her decision is the only correct one and only bad people think otherwise, but don't do a lot of talking about constitutionality.
 
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