Justice Anthony Kennedy

Obama's Odds of Winning the Health Care Ruling: 37%

Kent Greenfield | Posted 05.29.2012

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It is both customary and folly for Supreme Court watchers to predict outcomes of Supreme Court cases based on oral argument. So let me engage in the customary folly.

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Cry the Beloved Country: Why the Supreme Court Should Leave Obamacare Alone

David Paul | Posted 05.29.2012

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Lost in the arguments of conservatives and right-wing activists was the fact that the individual mandate -- the essential element that would bring tyranny to our homes -- was initially raised as the preferred strategy for health care reform by the right.

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The Future of Affirmative Action: Justice Kennedy Is the Key

Stephen Menendian | Posted 05.06.2012

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It seems likely that the Court in Fisher, in a 5-3 decision (since Kagan will not have a vote), will strike down the use of race in admissions currently employed by the University of Texas for failing the narrowly tailoring requirement.

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Why the Proposition 8 Ruling Has a Good Chance of Being Affirmed by the Supreme Court

Carlos A. Ball | Posted 04.09.2012

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If the Supreme Court issues an opinion following the appellate court's reasoning, it might have a limited impact on same-sex marriage bans in other states. But it is precisely this that significantly improves the chances of it being affirmed by the Supreme Court.

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Supremes Will Uphold Obamacare to Keep Insurance Market from Collapsing

Wendell Potter | Posted 01.17.2012

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Moderate conservative Anthony Kennedy will, I'm confident, recognize that without the law, the free-market system of health insurance, so highly valued by conservatives, will implode, sooner rather than later.

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Justice Anthony Kennedy's Influence On Supreme Court Likely To Grow

AP | MARK SHERMAN | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — Justice Anthony Kennedy, who already decides whether liberals or conservatives win the Supreme Court's most closely contested cases...

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Incorporating Guns?

Robert J. Spitzer | Posted 05.25.2011

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The calculus changed for the Second Amendment in 2008, when the Supreme Court, for the first time in history, ruled that the amendment protected an individual right of civilians to own handguns.

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Scowling Justice, Smiling Justice

Jeff Shesol | Posted 05.25.2011

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What should really concern us is not the words justices mutter under their breath but the words they commit to paper.

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Justice Kennedy: I Never Asked High School Paper To Approve Story About Me

Wall Street Journal | JESS BRAVIN | Posted 05.25.2011

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In an interview Tuesday, Justice Kennedy said he never asked to clear the copy before publication. He said the request came from a new employee who mi...

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Justice Kennedy Asks High School Paper To "Tidy Up" His Quotes

New York Times | ADAM LIPTAK | Posted 05.25.2011

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It turns out that Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, widely regarded as one of the court's most vigilant defenders of First Amendment values, had provided th...

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Taking A Lost Case to the Supreme Court-- Three Times?

Rob Kall | Posted 05.25.2011

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It is outrageously wrong that Altria/R.J. Reynolds tobacco could, because of its immense wealth and deep pockets, delay and abuse the Supreme Court system.

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Artificial Dissemination

Kevin Morris and Glenn Altschuler | Posted 05.25.2011

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Reading The Kingmakers evokes feelings not dissimilar to watching Mike Gravel during debates: you sympathize with him, but can't help concluding that he's a few bricks short of a load.

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The Supreme Court's Guantanamo Ruling: What Does It Mean?

Andy Worthington | Posted 05.25.2011

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Those who cherish historical adherence to the rule of law were delighted to hear that the Supreme Court ruled that prisoners at Guantánamo now have the right to challenge the basis of their detention.

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