Anthony Kennedy Quotes


Sometimes it is easy... to enhance your prestige by not exercising your responsibility, but that's not been the tradition of the court.


Citations

Kennedy, Anthony. Nomination of Anthony M. Kennedy to be Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States: Hearings Before the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate. U.S. Government Printing Office, 1989, p. 165.

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Anthony Kennedy
Anthony Kennedy
  • Born: July 23, 1936
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Judge

Anthony McLeod Kennedy is a retired American lawyer and jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1988 until his retirement in 2018. He was nominated to the court in 1987 by President Ronald Reagan, and sworn in on February 18, 1988. After the retirement of Sandra Day O'Connor in 2006, he was the swing vote on many of the Roberts Court's 5–4 decisions.