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Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy has announced his
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has announced his resignation
Thursday, June 28, 2018 –
6:45am
US Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy has announced his
retirement, giving Donald Trump the opportunity to shore up a
conservative majority on the country’s highest court.
“It has been the greatest honour and privilege to serve our
nation in the federal judiciary for 43 years, 30 of those years on
the Supreme Court,” Kennedy said.
His position at the centre of the court, “equally balanced
between more predictable conservatives and more consistent
liberals”, made him “the most essential member of the modern
court”, says The Washington Post.
Trump’s nomination to replace him is expected to vote with the
conservative wing of the court, giving it a consistent 5-4
majority over more liberal judges and paving the way to reopen some
of the most contentious issues in the country.
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Anti-abortion activists have already been “chipping away at
reproductive freedoms, as legislatures piled on restrictions”,
The Guardian says, but Kennedy routinely
sided with the liberal judges on such matters, as well as gay
rights, which the Supreme Court backed in 2015.
His departure means “a woman’s constitutional right to access
legal abortion is in dire, immediate danger – along with the
fundamental rights of all Americans,” said Ilyse Hogue, president
of Naral Pro-Choice America.
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