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
judging constitution lawyer
The Constitution doesn't belong to a bunch of judges and lawyers. It belongs to you.
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The federal sentencing guidelines should be revised downward. By contrast to the guidelines, I can accept neither the necessity nor the wisdom of federal mandatory minimum sentences. In too many cases, mandatory minimum sentences are unwise and unjust.
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The Constitution needs allegiance and loyalty and renewal and understanding with each generation, or else it's not going to last.
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.
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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.
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Any time you burn a cross in Virginia, it's a crime?
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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.
democracy taught generations
Democracy is something that you must learn each generation. It has to be taught.
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It is proper that we acknowledge the overwhelming weight of international opinion against the juvenile death penalty.
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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.
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A law imposing criminal penalties on protected speech is a stark example of speech suppression.
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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.
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No one questions the validity, the urgency, the essentiality of the Voting Rights Act.
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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.