Supreme Court Justice Kennedy isn't going anywhere and how it would affect the decision on the travel ban, abortion and more
buzzz worthy. . . By Mona Austin The word around Washington is that the Trump Administration has allegedly been sending signals to Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy to resign. It had been strongly rumored that Kennedy, the swing voter of the High Court, would retire at the end of the current term. Kennedy, 80, put those rumors to rest late last year saying he was not retiring. This means that the stay on the Travel Ban Executive Order that is currently being challenged in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, should it meet its potential end in the Supreme Court, could get Kennedy's vote and break the probable tie. The four liberal judges would likely support cancelling the ban and the four conservatives would vote to keep it leaving the call in Kennedy's hands who could vote either way, but likely to vote against it. That's one of the considerations for now. The installment of "universally" accepted Neil Gorsuch to the High Court was to be the s...