“Anthony Kennedy, the longest-serving member of the Supreme Court, is retiring,” Vox reports.
“With Kennedy gone, the Court’s decisions on issues where he’s a down-the-line conservative — like campaign finance and corruption, most business regulation and voting cases, gun rights, religious liberty, etc. — likely won’t change.”
“What will change are rulings on issues where Kennedy has helped maintain a shaky 5-4 center-left consensus.”
“An America after Anthony Kennedy looks significantly different from America before. The movement against mass incarceration could run into unprecedented resistance from the Court, and the anti-abortion movement could notch its greatest victories in a half-century.”
“This Supreme Court vacancy will give Donald Trump the power to shift jurisprudence on a range of critical issues. It could wind up being the most important part of his legacy.”