After retiring, Judge Anthony Kennedy, who wrote the Supreme Court’s 2015 ruling. On Wednesday, he recalled one of the malignant reality of the same -sex marriage, which he or she thinks would never be annulled.
“Much of the opinion and the grounds of opinion was that I didn’t know how many children were adopted by parents” who were a gay or lesbian, “said Kennedy interview with CNN in his palace. “At first I thought there were about 75,000 kids. It is hundreds of thousands.”
The judgment in the case of Obergefell before Hodges was based on fourteenth guarantees of correctional freedom and uniform protection of laws. Still, Kennedy, who withdrew in 2018, told CNN for his concern for adopted children “was a very important part of my reasoning” and he predicted that it could ensure that it would endure.
The cost of removing the same gender couples from the marriage was made most of the decision. “Without recognition, stability and predictability, marriages offer their children the stigma that they know their families are somehow smaller,” Kennedy wrote in their opinion. “They also incur greatly fundamental costs of raising unmarried parents, and are therefore forgiven by their more severe and indefinite family life.”
Kennedy joined four other judges. Chief Judge John Roberts and Judge Clarent Thomas and Samuel Alito disagreed, all of which remained on the bench. (The fourth dissident, the deceased Judge Antonin Scalia, was so angry that he stopped joining the regular lunch of judges and barely talked to Kennedy, reconciled in February 2016, a few days before his death.)
During the interview with CNN, Kennedy admitted that the decision remains contradictory. Tom urged Kim Davis, a former clerk in Kentuky, a former clerk in Kentucky, to reconsider the potential case for such a change.
However, the current majority of the court did not show collective interest to abandon the decade’s landmark. And Kennedy emphasized his faith in the basic judicial principle of how to follow the precedent, a well -known Latin phrase gaze;
“Most of Stare Decisis is based on confidence and accepted parents,” Kennedy said. According to him, if the decision had been changed, expectations for a guaranteed lifestyle for hundreds of thousands of the same sex couples and their families would be a dash.
“It would be a huge problem for addiction,” he said.
The sponsors of the same -sex marriage stand under a large rainbow flag in front of the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC, 2015. April 28th. – Astrid Riecken/The Washington Post/Getty Images
During his three -decades, the Centrist Conservative Kennedy, who is now 89, has provided a decisive fifth vote on some of the most significant disputes in modern America, including gay legal rights, access to abortion and supporting colleges. He has written a memoir “Life, Law and Freedom”, explaining his roots in California and his way to his 1988. Appointment of President Ronald Reagan at a height.
Among the most important events in the book are those who found that he was fighting his Catholic faith. As previously reported by CNN, 1992 He was considering throwing abortion before submitting a decisive vote for Elphold Roe against Wade.
When it comes to gay rights, when he wrote many decisions on the most important decisions, Kennedy’s book wrote “My colleagues also knew that religious and traditional family values encouraged me to feel personal conflict about these things … because my colleagues knew about these tensions,
He thought that this role was the most important rights of abortion in 1992. Planned paternity v. Casey, who approved in 1973. ROE’s decision to which women have given the constitutional right to terminate their pregnancy.
Four years after Kennedy left the bench, the Supreme Court annulled Roe against Wade and ended almost half a century of the country’s ability to get an abortion. Justice, which replaced Kennedy, Brett Kavanaugh, presented one of the five votes in the case of Dobbs against Jackson’s Women’s Health Organization.
Should he vote for Roe v. Wade?
“I won’t comment,” he said, directly asked. “I stand on what I wrote.”
However, Kennedy appealed to 2022. May Leak of the opinion project.
“It was most upset,” he said, “because fingers start to go all directions, you know what is leaked? Was it justice? Is the servant? Or someone in the office of the clerk? I thought they had to do a little more to investigate what it was. It was very serious. “
2023 In January, eight months after Politico declared a leaked opinion, the court stated that the officials did not determine what was responsible; The report noted that at least 90 people had access to the early DOBBS decision.
Kennedy, a proud sacrament, California, is still spending time in its courthouse filled with West -inspired art, such as Edwin Deakin’s “Still Life with Grapes”, and a 18 -inch bronze model created by the riding sculptor Thomas Holland Pony Express Monument.
Wednesday at Kennedy Palace in Washington, Washington, Edwin Deakin’s “Still Life with Grapes”. – Alyssa Schukar CNN
He said he was disappointed with the increasing tone of the court’s opinion and the tendency of the judges to doubt each other’s personal motives rather than legal reasoning.
“It is very important to me that opinions are written in a more moderate tone than they are,” Kennedy said. “After all, the law depends on respect for the court’s opinions. This respect is diminished if the disputed rhetoric is disputed.”
Kennedy refused to criticize any individual judges or national actors, including President Donald Trump.
“I don’t think we should get involved in political dialogue. It wouldn’t be right for me,” Kennedy said, adding, “I care about the level of discourse and confrontation in the political world – usually.”
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