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
absolve amendment beside government obligation tolerate
The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is beside the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech.
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The Government may not suppress lawful speech as the means to suppress unlawful speech.
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.
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The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is besides the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech.
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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.
art technology government
The Constitution exists precisely so that opinions and judgments, including esthetic and moral judgments about art and literature, can be formed, tested, and expressed. What the Constitution says is that these judgments are for the individual to make, not for the Government to decree, even with the mandate or approval of a majority. Technology expands the capacity to choose; and it denies the potential of this revolution if we assume the Government is best positioned to make these choices for us.
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Bowers was not correct when it was decided, and it is not correct today,
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Sometimes it is easy...to enhance your prestige by not exercising your responsibility, but that's not been the tradition of the court.
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It is beyond question that had this encounter occurred on the street it would be constitutional. The fact that an encounter takes place on a bus does not on its own transform standard police questioning of citizens into an illegal seizure,
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From a legal and business perspective, it seems wrong to me,
carefully congress consequences consider federal
When Congress alters the federal balance, it must carefully consider the consequences of doing so.
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The Constitution promises liberty to all within its reach, a liberty that includes certain specific rights that allow persons, within a lawful realm, to define and express their identity.
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When a juvenile commits a heinous crime, the State can exact forfeiture of some of the most basic liberties, but the State cannot extinguish his life and his potential to attain a mature understanding of his own humanity.