Anthony Kennedy

Si Anthony McLeod Kennedy (ipinanganak noong 23 Hulyo 1936) ay isang Amerikanong abogado at hukom na nagsilbi bilang Associate Justice ng Korte Suprema ng Estados Unidos. Siya ay hinirang ni Pangulong Ronald Reagan noong Nobyembre 11, 1987, at nanumpa sa panunungkulan noong Pebrero 18, 1988. Si Kennedy ang naging pinakasenior na Associate Justice sa korte kasunod ng pagkamatay ni Antonin Scalia noong Pebrero 2016. Nagretiro si Kennedy noong Hulyo 2018 .

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The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is beside the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech.

At the heart of liberty is the right to define one's own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of human life. Beliefs about these matters could not define the attributes of personhood were they formed under compulsion of the State.

Our system presumes that there are certain principles that are more important than the temper of the times. And you must have a judge who is detached, who is independent, who is fair, who is committed only to those principles, and not public pressures of other sort.

Times can blind us to certain truths and later generations can see that laws once thought necessary and proper in fact serve only to oppress.

Only a weak society needs government protection or intervention before it pursues its resolve to preserve the truth. Truth needs neither handcuffs nor a badge for its vindication

The essence of democracy is that the right to make law rests in the people and flows to the government, not the other way around. Freedom resides first in the people without need of a grant from government.

Dignitary wounds cannot always be healed with the stroke of a pen.

A democracy has the capacity—and the duty—to learn from its past mistakes; to discover and confront persisting biases; and by respectful, rationale deliberation to rise above those flaws and injustices. That process is impeded, not advanced, by court decrees based on the proposition that the public cannot have the requisite repose to discuss certain issues. It is demeaning to the democratic process to presume that the voters are not capable of deciding an issue of this sensitivity on decent and rational grounds.

The idea of democracy is that it can, and must, mature. Freedom embraces the right, indeed the duty, to engage in a rational, civic discourse in order to determine how best to form a consensus to shape the destiny of the Nation and its people.

A fundamental principle of the First Amendment is that all persons have access to places where they can speak and listen, and then, after reflection, speak and listen once more. A basic rule, for example, is that a street or a park is a quintessential forum for the exercise of First Amendment rights. Even in the modern era, these places are still essential venues for public gatherings to celebrate some views, to protest others, or simply to learn and inquire.

1980s

• Ang ilang mga uri ng regulasyon ng pamahalaan ng pribadong pinagkasunduan na homosexual na pag-uugali ay maaaring humarap sa malaking hamon sa konstitusyon.
  • Beller v. Middendorf, 632 F.2d 788, 809-10 (9th Cir. 1980) na nagtataguyod ng Navy discharge para sa homosexual na pag-uugali.

• Maaaring maghinuha na ang ilang mahahalagang, o pangunahing, mga karapatan ay dapat umiral sa anumang makatarungang lipunan. Ito ay hindi sumusunod na ang bawat isa sa mga mahahalagang karapatan ay isa na maaari nating ipatupad bilang mga hukom sa ilalim ng nakasulat na Konstitusyon. Ang Sugnay na Nararapat sa Proseso ay hindi isang garantiya ng bawat karapatan na dapat na nakapaloob sa isang perpektong sistema. Marami ang nangangatuwiran na ang isang makatarungang lipunan ay nagbibigay ng karapatang makisali sa homoseksuwal na paggawi. Kung tatanggapin ang pananaw na iyon, sinasabi ng desisyon ng Bowers na may karapatan ang Estado ng Georgia na gumawa ng maling desisyon — mali sa diwa na nilalabag nito ang mga pananaw ng ilang tao sa mga karapatan sa isang makatarungang lipunan. Maaari naming palawigin iyon nang bahagya upang sabihin na ang karapatan ng Georgia na magkamali sa mga bagay na hindi partikular na kinokontrol ng Konstitusyon ay isang kinakailangang bahagi ng sarili nitong mga prosesong pampulitika. Ang mga mamamayan nito ay may kalayaang pampulitika na pangasiwaan ang proseso ng pamahalaan upang gumawa ng mga desisyon na maaaring mali sa perpektong kahulugan, na napapailalim sa pagwawasto sa ordinaryong proseso ng pulitika.
  • Padron:Cite web (Also quoted at p. 443 of Kennedy's 1987 confirmation transcript).

• Talagang ginagawa ko at hinahangaan ko ito. Ako ay isang nagsasanay na Katoliko.
  • Ang diumano'y tugon sa pahayag ng konserbatibong senador na "Sa tingin ko alam mo kung saan ako nakatayo sa pagpapalaglag" (naganap ang palitan sa White House bago ang nominasyon ni Justice Kennedy). Sinipi sa {{cite news