Justice Anthony Kennedy announces retirement, gives Trump second Supreme Court pick

WASHINGTON, D.C., June 27, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – Justice Anthony Kennedy announced Wednesday that he is retiring from the United States Supreme Court, confirming months of speculation and clearing the way for President Donald Trump to appoint his second judge to the critical body.

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Originally appointed by Republican President Ronald Reagan, Kennedy has been a notorious swing vote on the court. He has cast multiple votes both protecting legal abortion and affirming the homosexual agenda, though he has also signaled openness to some abortion restrictions. Most recently he ruled in favor of pro-life pregnancy centers’ free speech rights in California, and against religious hostility displayed by Colorado officials attempting to force Christian baker Jack Phillips to create a cake for a same-sex “wedding.”

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Replacing Kennedy with a pro-life, originalist judge could give the Supreme Court its first pro-life majority since before 1973, potentially enabling Roe v. Wade to finally be overturned in one of several battles over pro-life state laws currently winding through the legal system.

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Penny Nance, CEO & President of Concerned Women for America, echoed Dannenfelser, saying that now is the moment conservative women have been waiting for.

“This is the moment conservative women have been waiting for — the chance to return justice and constitutional limits to the nation’s highest court. This is the reason why they voted overwhelmingly for Donald J. Trump over Hillary Clinton,” she said.

“We want a Supreme Court that rejects the subjective ‘living, breathing’ constitutional philosophy which judicial activist have used to force liberal political policies on the country under the guise of law. It is time for a Supreme Court that returns power to ‘We the People.'”

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