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Justice Anthony Kennedy’s LGBTQ Civil Rights Legacy

  •  Cody Drabble 
Thursday, June 27, 2019 | Sacramento, CA
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Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy delivers the keynote speech during a luncheon held for high school civics students in Sacramento, Calif., on Friday, Sept. 28, 2018.

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On June 26, Sacramento’s most important jurist, Justice Anthony Kennedy, penned the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision granting marriage equality in all 50 states. Lesley McClurg speaks with two McGeorge School of Law professors join to discuss Obergefell v. Hodges and the prior cases Justice Kennedy wrote from 1996 to 2013 that built the constitutional foundation for marriage equality.

“I think [Justice Kennedy] is animated by an equality principle. And on First Amendment cases, I think he may be the closest thing to a First Amendment purist on the court,” says Prof. Levine.

“Starting with Romer [v. Evans in 1996], and going all the way through the other cases, he has really penetrated to the reality of life: that relationships are important to us; that we're all looking for love; we sometimes find it, we sometimes don't. And that to deny that aspect of life to any group within the population is is fundamentally unfair,” says Prof. Sims.

Since the first time this interview aired, Justice Anthony Kennedy retired from the US Supreme Court in July 2018, after more than 30 years of service on the high court. 

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Cody Drabble

Former Insight Producer and On-Air Director

Cody Drabble learned to love public radio growing up in San Francisco with KQED on every morning during breakfast. In addition to producing and directing the live broadcast of Insight each morning, he also fills in as guest host for Beth Ruyak.   Read Full Bio 

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