Justice Anthony Kennedy’s departure from the Supreme Court will give President Trump a chance to solidify a more conservative majority on the court. Kennedy, 81, was the deciding vote in cases involving abortion, campaign finance, same-sex marriage and the continued viability of affirmative action.
The president said the search for a new justice will start “immediately,” and Senate Republicans said they plan to hold a confirmation vote in the fall.
Democrats said no less than the future of abortion rights, health care, collective bargaining and same-sex equality is in peril, while Republicans claimed a seminal opportunity to shift the high court’s ideological orientation solidly to the right for a generation or more.
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The retirement of Justice Anthony Kennedy is a much-welcomed jolt as Republicans seek to galvanize core voters ahead of November’s midterm elections. “One thing that energizes conservatives more than anything else is the Supreme Court,” said Sen. John Cornyn (R-Tex.), top deputy to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.
“He transported us from criminals in the eyes of the law to having the freedom to marry the people we love most in the world,” said one LGBT advocate.
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Democratic voters have brushed aside ideology to embrace identities of class, age, gender and ethnicity, often at the expense of the white male candidates who typified the party’s offerings in past years.
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