Senate Judiciary Chair: 'I Would Expect' A Supreme Court Vacancy This Summer

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23. Interesting, but Kennedy was a swing vote in many

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cases over many years because he was its most moderate member. Definitely conservative, he nevertheless often enraged the right into excoriating him as a damned liberal. Why would he want to set the court on a hard-right course that deviated so strongly from his own legacy of relative moderation?

Frankly, after having seen the devastating effects on our nation of conservative decisions on election finance and lightening of protections on minorities and employees, plus much else, retiring at this time would seem to suggest that he mostly approved of a fundamental, strong right furn for our nation.

Which is contradicted by some of his latest decisions, and his concept of "dignity" as a guiding principle. And Justice O'Connor on leaving the court admitted, "It's my party that's destroying the country." They've had all the more reason to be sure of that since then.