U.S. Supreme Court,
Judges and Judiciary,
Constitutional Law
Jun. 29, 2018
Kennedy: A most strident moderate
Whatever one may think of Justice Anthony Kennedy's jurisprudence as a whole, there is no doubt that he possessed extremely strong convictions, and voted those convictions throughout his career.
Ashutosh Bhagwat
Professor
UC Davis School of Law
Ashutosh is Martin Luther King, Jr. Professor of Law at UC Davis School of Law. He served as a law clerk for Justice Kennedy during the October 1991 term of the Supreme Court.
On Wednesday, Associate Justice Anthony M. Kennedy announced his retirement from the U.S. Supreme Court after over 30 years of service on that court -- and over 40 years of service in the federal judiciary. He has been one of the so-called "swing votes" on the Supreme Court for almost his entire career, and since Justice Sandra Day O'Connor's retirement in 2006, usually the key swing vote. As such, over the past quarter century, Justice Kennedy has had more influence ...
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