Somebody please tell me why Kennedy is called a “conservative”.
In a blatant piece of activist judging, he wrote the majority opinion that gave captured foreign terrorists habeas corpus rights. In a landmark eminent domain case, he voted to give some citizen’s house away to a developer on the grounds that it would produce more tax revenue. You could be more conservative than that and be in Obama’s cabinet.
Sandra Day O’Kennedy replaced Sandra Day O’Connor as the drama queen at the center of the SCOTUS. He IS the court as things stand. Best he should hang on until there is a real POTUS again. Next opportunity: replace Ruth Buzzi Ginsberg, Stephen Breyer and the Obamao appointments with people who have a copy of the constitution and the demonstrated ability to read and apply the text and recharge the other five seats when convenient with young tigers. The situation stinks now but could be worse. Make recess appointments as necessary to fill vacancies for a year at a time. There are still many capable and constitutionally literate lawyers who would be honored to serve a year at a time to restore the constitution. With a fully purged SCOTUS, the SCOTUS could solve most problems and do so perfectly consistently with the constitution. It is SCOTUS responsibility to erase those unconstitutional precedents (abortion, gay everything, money squandering on unconstitutional programs, eminent domain as in Kelo vs. New London, etc.) that SCOTUS and federal courts created and THEN to lay down a very firm and well-established line on 10th Amendment jurisprudence to put an end to the legislative and regulatory depredations against the constitution. Decredential law schools and bar examining committees on admission to practice which refuse to comply