WASHINGTON (AP) — Retired Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy said Wednesday he was troubled that partisanship seemed to be “creeping its way into the court,” and that the state of political discourse in the country has gotten so vulgar and vile that he worries for the country.
The tone of recent opinions bothers him more than outcomes of cases, Kennedy said in an interview with The Associated Press in his court office in advance of next week’s publication of his memoir, “ Life, Law & Liberty.”
“The justices have to resist thinking of themselves as being partisan,” he said. “In our current discourse, it seems to me, partisanship is creeping its way into the court.”
He declined to identify any justices or opinions, but at another point he returned to the personal nature of some court opinions.
“In our current discourse, it seems to me, partisanship is creeping its way into the court.”
Creeping its way? Some of the recent SCOTUS decisions are so horribly written, you’d think the whole point is to parade partisanship around. In that respect, making decisions on the shadow docket at least avoids the embarrassment of having to push out that garbage.
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Clarence Thomas has been on that court for a good long while now. If you think corruption and partisanship is new I don’t know what to tell you.
thomas is the most vengeful, hateful, and vindictive out of all the conservatives. hes on a mission, because he thought he was owed priveleges and protections from the “dems” simply for being a black person.
You helped being this about you corrupt fuck
Relax, he was just trying to protect his son by trading the dignity of the American legal system. It’s totally normal, upstanding shit! Cmon, guy.
It’s been creeping over 30 years, we had the Citizens United case, 'member?
Now it’s a 6-person sprint to authoritarianism.
Shit, he can’t even say who or what group is the risk. What a spineless jerk. Name the group or shut up. Otherwise you’re just asking us all to get along while the average quality of life goes to hell and people are sent to death camps.
alll these retired GOP politicians, trying to have redemption arc, by saying the opposite, but not enough to hurt thier livelyhood.
