High Court Balance at Stake as Kennedy Retirement Talk Heats Up
After 30 years of pivotal decisions on the U.S. Supreme Court, Justice Anthony Kennedy is about to make his biggest one yet.
For the second straight year, Kennedy, 81, is the focus of retirement speculation as the court approaches the late-June end of its term. A retirement by the court’s swing justice would give President Donald Trump his second Supreme Court vacancy to fill before Republicans’ Senate majority goes on the November election ballot. It also would drop a political bomb into what is already one of the country’s most divisive eras since the Civil War.
Ha, they’re worried.
If Kennedy retires and RBG’s health (does she have any left?) gets too bad, SCOTUS will be ironclad for a long time.