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
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The case for freedom, the case for our constitutional principles the case for our heritage has to be made anew in each generation. The work of freedom is never done.
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There's a time for debate and a time for consensus. There's a time for advocacy and time for first principles.
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As the Constitution endures, persons in every generation can invoke its principles in their own search for greater freedom.
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Our system presumes that there are certain principles that are more important than the temper of the times. And you must have a judge who is detached, who is independent, who is fair, who is committed only to those principles, and not public pressures of other sort. That's the meaning of neutrality.
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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,
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When Congress alters the federal balance, it must carefully consider the consequences of doing so.
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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 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.
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Family members have a personal stake in honoring and mourning their dead and objecting to unwarranted public exploitation that, by intruding upon their own grief, tends to degrade the rites and respect they seek to accord to the deceased person who was once their own.
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You have plaintiffs attorneys, you have defense attorneys. So there is no unified bar that will protect a particular judge who has made a courageous decision that's unpopular.