Anthony Kennedy
Anthony Kennedy
Anthony McLeod Kennedyis the senior Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States who was nominated by President Ronald Reagan on November 11, 1987, and took the oath of office on February 18, 1988...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionSupreme Court Justice
Date of Birth23 July 1936
CitySacramento, CA
CountryUnited States of America
responsibility exercise sometimes
Sometimes it is easy... to enhance your prestige by not exercising your responsibility, but that's not been the tradition of the court.
mean government freedom-of-speech
The Government may not suppress lawful speech as the means to suppress unlawful speech.
law freedom-of-speech criminals
A law imposing criminal penalties on protected speech is a stark example of speech suppression.
firsts principles debate
There's a time for debate and a time for consensus. There's a time for advocacy and time for first principles.
gay years information
There's substance to the point that sociological information is new. We have five years of information to weigh against 2,000 years of history or more.
reading government tests
The court decided, based on its reading of our precedents, that the effects test of Lemon is violated whenever government action creates an identification of the state with a religion, or with religion in general, ...or when the effect of the governmental action is to endorse one religion over another, or to endorse religion in general.
weight opinion death-penalty
It is proper that we acknowledge the overwhelming weight of international opinion against the juvenile death penalty.
freedom government speech
The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is besides the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech.
government challenges may
Some kinds of government regulation of private consensual homosexual behavior may face substantial constitutional challenge.
thinking government law
First Amendment freedoms are most in danger when the government seeks to control thought or to justify its laws for that impermissible end. The right to think is the beginning of freedom, and speech must be protected from the government because speech is the beginning of thought.
asking-questions police ordinary
Asking questions is an essential part of police investigation. In the ordinary sense a police officer is free to ask a person for identification without implicating the Fourth Amendment.
religious exercise people
The lessons of the First Amendment are as urgent in the modern world as the 18th Century when it was written. One timeless lesson is that if citizens are subjected to state-sponsored religious exercises, the State disavows its own duty to guard and respect that sphere of inviolable conscience and belief which is the mark of a free people.
lying simple ordinary
The remedy for speech that is false is speech that is true. This is the ordinary course in a free society. The response to the unreasoned is the rational; to the uninformed, the enlightened; to the straight-out lie, the simple truth.
law sight facts
We must never lose sight of the fact that the law has a moral foundation, and we must never fail to ask ourselves not only what the law is, but what the law should be.