We now have the opportunity to demonstrate the real and concrete harms that result from partisan gerrymandering in the lower court, the same court that struck down the Wisconsin mapping scheme to begin with. Anthony Kennedy More Quotes by Anthony Kennedy More Quotes From Anthony Kennedy Any time you burn a cross in Virginia, it's a crime? Anthony Kennedy virginiacrimecrosses Sometimes it is easy... to enhance your prestige by not exercising your responsibility, but that's not been the tradition of the court. Anthony Kennedy responsibilityexercisesometimes 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. Anthony Kennedy testsgovernmentreading Some kinds of government regulation of private consensual homosexual behavior may face substantial constitutional challenge. Anthony Kennedy governmentchallengesmay 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. Anthony Kennedy gaysubstanceyears There's a time for debate and a time for consensus. There's a time for advocacy and time for first principles. Anthony Kennedy debateprinciplesfirsts No one questions the validity, the urgency, the essentiality of the Voting Rights Act. Anthony Kennedy right-to-votevotingrights 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. Anthony Kennedy gay-marriagerightspromise It is proper that we acknowledge the overwhelming weight of international opinion against the juvenile death penalty. Anthony Kennedy death-penaltyopinionweight A law imposing criminal penalties on protected speech is a stark example of speech suppression. Anthony Kennedy freedom-of-speechcriminalslaw 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. Anthony Kennedy mourningmembersgrief 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. Anthony Kennedy asking-questionspoliceordinary The Government may not suppress lawful speech as the means to suppress unlawful speech. Anthony Kennedy freedom-of-speechgovernmentmean 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. Anthony Kennedy defensedecisionjudging In the political context fair means somebody that will vote for the unions or for the business. It can't mean that in the judicial context or we're in real trouble. Anthony Kennedy politicalrealmean It has been the greatest honor and privilege to serve our nation in the federal judiciary for 43 years, 30 of those years on the Supreme Court, he is a man that I've known for a long time and a man that I've respected for a long time. He's been a great justice of the Supreme Court. He's a man ... who has displayed tremendous vision, and tremendous heart, and he will be missed. Anthony Kennedy top-news Rejecting the physical presence rule is necessary to ensure that artificial competitive advantages are not created by this court's precedents. Anthony Kennedy top-news The commission's hostility was inconsistent with the First Amendment's guarantee that our laws be applied in a manner that is neutral toward religion. Anthony Kennedy politics There is nothing to stop the same couple or a similarly situated couple to trigger the same process, in fact, I would imagine that plans are afoot as we speak to trigger the same process with the same baker. Anthony Kennedy us The outcome of cases like this in other circumstances must await further elaboration in the courts, all in the context of recognizing that these disputes must be resolved with tolerance, without undue disrespect to sincere religious beliefs, and without subjecting gay persons to indignities when they seek goods and services in an open market. Anthony Kennedy top-news
