Yale Daily News

Updated: Monday, November 23, 2009 1:21 p.m.

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Kennedy talks poverty, rights

Justice avoids topic of Court politics

Staff Reporter, Staff Reporter, Staff Reporter, Staff Reporter
Published Friday, September 28, 2007

He may be the swing vote on the U.S. Supreme Court, but Anthony Kennedy said calling it the “Kennedy Court” might motivate his colleagues to rebel.

“If you keep saying that, the decisions will be 8-1,” Kennedy joked after delivering a lecture at the Yale Law School. His speech, according to attendees, mostly avoided talk about the High Court, its decisions and its internal politics. Instead, he spoke about world poverty, the power of individual rights and how separation of powers and checks and balances are not one and the same.

At Kennedy’s request, the lecture was closed...

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