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Anthony Kennedy told NPR ‘partisanship is becoming ... more prevalent and more bitter’ in the high court’s opinions

Retired US supreme court justice Anthony Kennedy fears “democracy is not guaranteed to survive” as “partisanship is becoming much more prevalent and more bitter” in the legal opinions coming from his former institution, he tells NPR in an upcoming interview.

Strikingly, for the interview set to publish in October, NPR’s Nina Totenberg said she asked Kennedy whether he was still sure the supreme court’s major decisions would remain intact – as he told a small group of journalists that he was when he retired in 2018 during Donald Trump’s first presidency.

NPR reported that Kennedy “demurred”, seven years after that prediction – and three years after the federal abortion rights once granted by the Roe v Wade ruling were eliminated by a supreme court with a conservative supermajority anchored by three Trump appointments.

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Shut the fuck up, Kennedy. You handed orangeboi an SC seat, and it looked a whole fucking lot like some sort of backroom deal to the people who were paying attention.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 63 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Thanks for retiring at the worst possible fucking time.

[–] SGGeorwell@lemmy.world 45 points 1 day ago (1 children)

He made a deal. He’s corrupt also.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 1 day ago

Yeah, how is his nepo baby son doing these days, didn't be get a job or promotion or something as soon as Kennedy stepped down?

[–] troy_frizzell@mstdn.social 44 points 1 day ago

@MicroWave

He should have thought of that before he enabled fascism.

Fuck Anthony Kennedy and the horse he rode in on.

[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Dam if only he had defended democracy when he had a chance to

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago

Mr. Citizens United says what?

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 31 points 1 day ago

democracy is not guaranteed to survive

It never was, never is, and never will be guaranteed...

And every time people take it for granted, their kids lose it

This mother fucker who stepped down so his son could give Trump loans‽

[–] AfricanExpansionist@lemmy.ml -3 points 1 day ago

We were never a democracy 😒