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Justice Anthony Kennedy on the Supreme Court today: "A little bit too personal and confrontational"
CBS News ^ | Oct 12, 2025 | Erin Moriarty

Posted on 10/13/2025 3:06:16 AM PDT by fwdude

Kennedy, now 89 years old, no longer hears Supreme Court cases. He formally stepped down seven years ago during the first Trump administration. "I loved sitting on the bench," he said.

Asked whether he would want to be there today, he replied, "The only reason I left – I love the Court – but I left for something that I love more, which is my wife, Mary."

And as the "swing justice" on the Court, says Greene, Kennedy cast the deciding vote on some of the most consequential political and cultural issues of his era: the 2000 Presidential election, gun ownership, abortion rights, and same-sex marriage.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; Philosophy
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One of the most consequential justices in generations, and not in a good way. He was a raging leftist who occasionally voted with the conservatives.

It’s hard to believe what this country would have looked like had Bork been nominated to the Court instead of Kennedy. Trajectory is everything.

1 posted on 10/13/2025 3:06:16 AM PDT by fwdude
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To: fwdude

As long as you have Democrats in positions of power, personal freedoms are at risk.
Democrats fear personal freedoms, only the group,
their group should be free.
Everyone else is an enemy to be enslaved.


2 posted on 10/13/2025 3:16:20 AM PDT by rellic (No such thing as a moderate Moslem or Democrat )
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To: fwdude

Kennedy has a lot to answer for.


3 posted on 10/13/2025 3:18:18 AM PDT by skr (1 Peter 1:15 - But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation)
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To: fwdude

As a reminder, Kennedy was the lynchpin in all four of the cases which gave unprecedented power to the Gaystapo:
Romer v. Evans (1996)
Lawrence v. Texas (2003)
United States v. Windsor (2013)
Obergefell v. Hodges (2015)


4 posted on 10/13/2025 3:23:40 AM PDT by fwdude (Why is there a "far/radical right," but damned if they'll admit that there is a far/radical left)
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To: fwdude

This arrogant snot, from the cesspool of a man that gave us Obergefell and officially redefined GOD’s sacred covenant of marriage.


5 posted on 10/13/2025 3:29:16 AM PDT by Nervous Tick (Hope, as a righteous product of properly aligned Faith, IS in fact a strategy.)
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To: fwdude

Yep. It amazes me how often second appointments to a position are complete capitulations. It’s like a tennis player who blows a first serve and then drops a little lollipop in after that.

Then again, it’s what helped us at least get Alito from W.


6 posted on 10/13/2025 3:37:55 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: fwdude

Supreme Court Issues Decision In Religious Freedom Case.

https://conservativebrief.com/freedom-case-95225/?utm_source=CB&utm_medium=258&fbclid=IwY2xjawNZtXNleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETF3MlhEbTl5cWsxbE1oSWJ1AR5E-RRz8RWkb3yHy57GD6EEZKd8cB1EsK2oVTH15jAH_jUYpwmYGRGcjDhzfQ_aem_VlihhKNfoVr7v30rJgZpwA

The U.S. Supreme Court has unanimously decided in favor of a postal worker from Pennsylvania in a significant religious liberty case involving the appropriateness of employers’ accommodation of religious preferences in the workplace.


7 posted on 10/13/2025 3:46:42 AM PDT by GailA (STOP COMPLAINING, AMERICA NEEDS YOUR FULL SUPPORT NOT SOMETIMES, ALWAYS.)
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“At the heart of liberty is the right to define one's own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of human life.” — Anthony Kennedy, in a joint opinion with Justices Souter and O’Conner, Planned Parenthood v. Casey, 1992

It’s hard to believe this kind of banal, meaningless sh!t could be written by someone older than the age of nine.

8 posted on 10/13/2025 4:14:24 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("Nobody sits a horse like Monte Walsh.")
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“...At the heart of liberty is the right to define one’s own concept of existence...”

Every convicted murderer and criminal says the same thing. /spit


9 posted on 10/13/2025 4:17:27 AM PDT by Flavious_Maximus (Tony Fauci will be put on death row and die of COVID!)
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To: Flavious_Maximus

I believe one of Trump’s first term appeals court judges accurately referred to kennedy as a ‘judicial prostitute.’

He sold his soul for accolades from human leftists, and that is all the reward he will receive for what he has ‘decided’... and someday he will meet the true Judge of the Universe.


10 posted on 10/13/2025 4:47:59 AM PDT by imabadboy99
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To: imabadboy99
Justice Kennedy: The Rule of Law Requires You To Enforce the Laws I Made Up
11 posted on 10/13/2025 5:31:57 AM PDT by fwdude (Why is there a "far/radical right," but damned if they'll admit that there is a far/radical left)
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Obergefell v. Hodges (2015) needs to be revisited and reversed like Roe.


12 posted on 10/13/2025 5:36:35 AM PDT by TigerClaws
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We should go much further than reversing Obergefell. We were promised a Marriage Amendment to the Constitution if the courts “got out of hand” on this issue. It’s time to cash in on this promise.


13 posted on 10/13/2025 5:43:08 AM PDT by fwdude (Why is there a "far/radical right," but damned if they'll admit that there is a far/radical left)
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To: fwdude

If Bork had been appointed, he died in 2012 so Obama would have nominated instead of Trump when Kennedy retired. It worked out.


14 posted on 10/13/2025 5:48:19 AM PDT by napscoordinator (DeSantis is a beast! Florida is the freest state in the country! )
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To: fwdude

2/3rd of Congress? Impossible!


15 posted on 10/13/2025 5:50:47 AM PDT by napscoordinator (DeSantis is a beast! Florida is the freest state in the country! )
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To: napscoordinator

It’s hard to make conjectures on what-if’s, but it is possible that Bork may have lived longer with a Supreme Court trajectory. But it is more certain that he wouldn’t have capitulated to the left on Romer or Lawrence if he had been on the Seat. If he had lived a bit longer, he would have been the winning vote on marriage in Windsor and Obergefell, which were 5-4 cases, if those two cases had even been possible after earlier court victories.


16 posted on 10/13/2025 6:19:29 AM PDT by fwdude (Why is there a "far/radical right," but damned if they'll admit that there is a far/radical left)
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To: napscoordinator

If Bork had made it to SCOTUS, perhaps Thomas wouldn’t have known to prepare for the high-tech lynching that Biden put Thomas through.


17 posted on 10/13/2025 6:29:45 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: fwdude

From the guy who gave us gay marriages, not based on law, but because he had a gay friend.


18 posted on 10/13/2025 6:37:39 AM PDT by oldbill
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To: skr

I love a SCOTUS that has no problem confronting bad precedent.


19 posted on 10/13/2025 6:40:22 AM PDT by Racketeer
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To: napscoordinator
2/3rd of Congress? Impossible!

Impossible? Good! Then that established the level of campaigning we have to do. We can call out the promises of all the congresscritters who made this promise.

If the left could do the unthinkable to redefining marriage into something it has never been, then we have to have the same impossible goal.

20 posted on 10/13/2025 7:35:56 AM PDT by fwdude (Why is there a "far/radical right," but damned if they'll admit that there is a far/radical left)
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