Justice Anthony M. Kennedy (Picture through Getty)
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The instances swung, not me.
— Former Supreme Courtroom Justice Anthony Kennedy, in a passage written in his upcoming memoir, “Life, Legislation and Liberty” (affiliate hyperlink) set to be printed on October 14. Kennedy, who stepped down from the excessive court docket in 2018, typically discovered himself on the heart of the nation’s most polarizing points, starting from abortion to homosexual rights to marketing campaign finance.
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