Twitter Reactions To Justice Kennedy's Retirement

The legal world reacts to the chaos at the Supreme Court.

Justice Kennedy retired today just as Professor Rick Hasen predicted. Over the coming days, there will be in-depth retrospectives, homages, denunciations, and predictions.

But today, let’s just survey the instant reactions from legal Twitter, including our own off-the-cuff thoughts.

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Some real momentum for this idea.

A good point. There are some clerks out there who really thought they had a job next year.

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Obviously.

Well, he’s young enough for FedSoc.

Will it? I’m highly doubtful. I predict the LGBTQ community will increasingly embrace the fact that RBG, Breyer, Kagan, and Sotomayor had their backs and respected their rights consistently and some other guy happened to sign the opinion.

He will be relegated to the dustbin by that community. And, given how this is shaking out, rightfully so.

ACS Con should be fun.

Yeah, they won’t.


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