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Constitutional Law

Sep. 12, 2001

Justice Pursues 'Civics-Book' Ideals

WASHINGTON - "The hard fact is that sometimes we must make decisions we do not like. We make them because they are right, right in the sense that the law and the Constitution, as we see them, compel the result."

PROFILE
Anthony M. Kennedy
Associate Justice
U.S. Supreme Court
Career highlights: Supreme Court justice, appointed by President Reagan, 1988; 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals judge, appointed by President Ford, 1975-88; partner, Evans, Jackson & Kennedy in Sacramento, 1967-75; sole practitioner, Sacramento, 1963-67; associate, Thelen, Marrin, John & Bridges, San Francisco, 1961-63
Law school:...

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