Will Supreme Court Justice Kennedy Retire Monday?

[NightHawkeye]

Speculation Builds: Will SCOTUS Centrist Kennedy Retire Monday?

That’s the question for Anthony Kennedy, 80, the Supreme Court’s centrist member who is reportedly considering retirement after the court’s session ends Monday.
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Should Kennedy decide to retire, it would set off a firestorm in Washington, D.C., which just saw a bitterly-partisan fight to replace Justice Antonin Scalia finally come to a close with the confirmation of Justice Neil Gorsuch in April.​

 

[Nithavela]

Is there any evidence that he will retire? That article only says that it might happen because it's a special work day..?

 

[NightHawkeye]

Is there any evidence that he will retire? That article only says that it might happen because it's a special work day..?

Don't know ... but the New York Times is hyping it today.

Will Anthony Kennedy Retire? What Influences a Justice’s Decision

 

[Nithavela]

Don't know ... but the New York Times is hyping it today.

Will Anthony Kennedy Retire? What Influences a Justice’s Decision

So, much ado about nothing as per usual with modern news media...

 

[NightHawkeye]

So, much ado about nothing as per usual with modern news media...

Could be.

It's a holiday on this side of the pond today. That means a slow news day.

 

[HereIStand]

That would great. We need another Gorsuch on the court.

 

[LivingWordUnity]

I think he should retire so that President Trump can appoint someone conservative in his place.

 

[Nithavela]

So.. did he?

 

[Veritas]

Who knows. The one who should retire is Ginsburg. She's ancient and has some chemo brain. Maybe she wants to go like her friend Scalia and die while serving the bench.

 

[Rion]

The endangered GOP senator who thinks Justice Kennedy could save him

Now, it's speculated it'll be early summer.

 

[super animator]

Oh so it's after the court ruling regarding the cake buisness.

 

[DaisyDay]

Who knows. The one who should retire is Ginsburg. She's ancient and has some chemo brain. Maybe she wants to go like her friend Scalia and die while serving the bench.

That's ignorant - how long do you think the effect lasts? Even when she was undergoing treatment she was 10X brighter than Lecher Thomas.

 

[jayem]

I'd favor a mandatory retirement age of 80 for all federal judges, SCOTUS included. Some degree of turnover, with a regular injection of fresh blood is a good thing. Of course, this would require a Constitutional amendment. Which I'd fully support provided it also contained a provision that the Senate must hold a confirmation vote on every judicial candidate within 3 months of nomination. Neither party should ever again play political games with the federal judiciary.

 

[NotreDame]

I'd favor a mandatory retirement age of 80 for all federal judges, SCOTUS included. Some degree of turnover, with a regular injection of fresh blood is a good thing. Of course, this would require a Constitutional amendment. Which I'd fully support provided it also contained a provision that the Senate must hold a confirmation vote on every judicial candidate within 3 months of nomination. Neither party should ever again play political games with the federal judiciary.

It's inevitable because the people appointed to the federal judiciary are "political" and render opinions, at times, consistent with aspects of their political ideology. This has been true since the Warren court of the 1950s.

 

[jayem]

It's inevitable because the people appointed to the federal judiciary are "political" and render opinions, at times, consistent with aspects of their political ideology. This has been true since the Warren court of the 1950s.

Politics have been involved in the nomination of judges, and in the opinions they have rendered long before the 1950s. And I'm sure it always will be. It's an inherently political endeavor. But why shouldn't the Constitutionally prescribed mechanics of how judges are seated be above politics? The President nominates and the Senate confirms or rejects. Any judicial nominee will get a yes or no vote. What's wrong with that?

 

[camille70]

Social media rumors said it was a fundraising ploy to try to gin up republican involvement for the midterms and fire up the base as only SCOTUS, abortion and gun control seem to do it these days. A vacant seat would fire up the left also. Someone on twitter said Kennedy hasn't indicated he wanted to retire, and that he had already accepted interns for next year. We'll see shortly. Either he will announce it, or not.

 

[Fantine]

Who knows. The one who should retire is Ginsburg. She's ancient and has some chemo brain. Maybe she wants to go like her friend Scalia and die while serving the bench.

Ginsburg is universally admired by women and, indeed, is a feminist role model. They have made a documentary film about her (not yet released) touting her exercise routine, her keen sense of humor, her brilliant legal mind.

Her incisive questions show up all the holes in the conservative justices' positions.

Kennedy, although a Republican appointee, was the swing vote. Gorsuch was far too conservative an appointment, and at age 49, we will be stuck with him far too long. Unfortunately, the nuclear option was made on judicial appointments.

Like his Cabinet appointments, Trump's judicial appointments have been unqualified most of the time. Hopefully he will try to appoint someone so awful that the few moderate Republicans will block him (it won't be a her--it will be a WASP male, for sure) and we can drag this thing out until we have a better Senate in January, 2018.

 

[Truth7t7]

Speculation Builds: Will SCOTUS Centrist Kennedy Retire Monday?

That’s the question for Anthony Kennedy, 80, the Supreme Court’s centrist member who is reportedly considering retirement after the court’s session ends Monday.
...
Should Kennedy decide to retire, it would set off a firestorm in Washington, D.C., which just saw a bitterly-partisan fight to replace Justice Antonin Scalia finally come to a close with the confirmation of Justice Neil Gorsuch in April.​

I hope he stays long enought to decide the "Colorado, Gay Cake" case, hes the deciding vote, and has hinted hes in favor of the business owner and freedom of religious liberty and expression.

I hope Ginsburg will put her name in tonight, wouldn't that be a conservative dream.

 

[Truth7t7]

Ginsburg is universally admired by women and, indeed, is a feminist role model. They have made a documentary film about her (not yet released) touting her exercise routine, her keen sense of humor, her brilliant legal mind.

Her incisive questions show up all the holes in the conservative justices' positions.

Kennedy, although a Republican appointee, was the swing vote. Gorsuch was far too conservative an appointment, and at age 49, we will be stuck with him far too long. Unfortunately, the nuclear option was made on judicial appointments.

Like his Cabinet appointments, Trump's judicial appointments have been unqualified most of the time. Hopefully he will try to appoint someone so awful that the few moderate Republicans will block him (it won't be a her--it will be a WASP male, for sure) and we can drag this thing out until we have a better Senate in January, 2018.

Many of Ginsburg actions and rulings are pure evil in my opinion, when you look femenist liberal up in the dictionary, her picture is there.

 

[Arcangl86]

Many of Ginsburg actions and rulings are pure evil in my opinion, when you look femenist liberal up in the dictionary, her picture is there.

Can you give us an example of some of her "evil" rulings?