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Jun 27, 2018 · Justice Kennedy wrote the ruling in the 5-4 decision, saying that executing juveniles is cruel and unusual punishment banned by the Eighth Amendment. He argued that juveniles have developing...
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In U.S. v. Windsor, he led the Court in striking down a law that withheld recognition of same-sex marriages for federal purposes. Finally, Kennedy wrote the majority opinion in Obergefell v. Hodges, which found a constitutional right to same-sex marriage.
Oct 31, 2022 · May 25, 2017: Justice Anthony Kennedy and Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg speaking to guests at an Academy dinner in honor of the legacy of Judge Frank M. Johnson, Jr. in the Courtroom of the Supreme Court of the United States. In June 2015, the Court took further action, once again dividing five to four, and asserted the right of gay couples to ...
Jun 29, 2018 · By Jacob Taylor. In 30 years on the Supreme Court, Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote the majority opinion or was the deciding fifth vote in several landmark rulings, including on same-sex marriage,...
Nov 9, 2018 · For a recent law school graduate, talking with a Supreme Court Justice about any of those topics was surreal; having a Supreme Court Justice act like he cared what you had to say about them was mindboggling. Yet that’s what Justice Kennedy did, even twenty-plus years into his time on the Court.
Anthony McLeod Kennedy (born July 23, 1936) is an American attorney and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1988 until his retirement in 2018. He was nominated to the court in 1987 by President Ronald Reagan, and sworn in on February 18, 1988.
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Jun 27, 2018 · Justice Kennedy wrote to President Trump that it had been — quote — "the highest of honors to serve." The president reacted almost immediately during a meeting with the president of Portugal ...
