Justice Kennedy Call It A Day

[dannyboys]

That's right Kennedy is hanging up his spurs.
But who will PRESIDENT TRUMP replace Kennedy with?
Trey Gowdy? Ted Cruz? Ted has already had the SC tailors over for lunch.
You want to watch the LIB in Washington and in the LIB MSM go into full mental breakdown mode?
Watch and enjoy.

 

[dcbl]

great news if true

link?

only thing that would be better would be Ginsberg leaving SCOTUS with a Trump replacement...

 

[MarathonMike]

He's been considering retirement for awhile, I can't find anything that confirms this.

 

[Harpy Eagle]

That's right Kennedy is hanging up his spurs.
But who will PRESIDENT TRUMP replace Kennedy with?
Trey Gowdy? Ted Cruz? Ted has already had the SC tailors over for lunch.
You want to watch the LIB in Washington and in the LIB MSM go into full mental breakdown mode?
Watch and enjoy.

No link = fake news

 

[theDoctorisIn]

Not only is the OP completely full of shit and Kennedy has not stepped down or indicated that he will - he's already hired clerks for the next term.

 

[Picaro]

Rumors last fall had him wanting to retire in June of this year. Can't find where he announced anything concrete yet.

As for the clerks, he hired them last December for the October term of this year, true, but that doesn't means anything either, just that they have to make the decision early enough so the clerks can make arrangements about school, jobs, whatever. Do new Justices usually honor the choices of previous Justices when a seat is vacated? I don't know, but also don't see why they wouldn't, either.

Supreme Court Clerk Hiring Watch: Are Reports Of Justice Kennedy’s Retirement Greatly Exaggerated?


Well, it might be time to rethink that rumor. This week, Justice Kennedy finished hiring his full complement of four law clerks for October Term 2018. Wow!

The AMK hires for 2018-2019 are as follows:


1. Aimee Brown (Chicago 2014 / Griffith)
2. Alex Kazam (Yale 2016 / Kethledge / Sullivan (S.D.N.Y.))
3. Clayton Kozinski (Yale 2017 / Kavanaugh)
4. Conrad Scott (Yale 2015 / Watford / Garaufis (E.D.N.Y.))


Now, let me offer a caveat: hiring these clerks is no guarantee that Justice Kennedy will stick around until OT 2018. He can absolutely decide, whenever he wants, that he wants to leave the Court, whenever he wants. He’s a freaking Supreme Court justice; nobody tells him what to do.

And if he were to decide to retire before OT 2018, he wouldn’t have to fret too much about “orphaning” his hires. These high-powered legal eagles would likely find homes with other justices, per SCOTUS tradition. (And one of them could still clerk for the retired Justice Kennedy; retired justices get one clerk each, who assists the retired justice with various projects and gets “farmed out” to the chambers of an active justice too.)

 

[2aguy]

Not only is the OP completely full of shit and Kennedy has not stepped down or indicated that he will - he's already hired clerks for the next term.

They often do that and then retire, their clerks move to the other justices...