In spring 2003, Supreme Court Justices Anthony Kennedy and Sandra Day O’Connor were ready to break ground on gay rights by striking down a ban on intimate relations between same-sex couples. The ...

Justice Anthony Kennedy announced Wednesday he would be retiring from the Supreme Court. With him go his three decades of experience on the bench and, more politically pressing, his moderate legal ...

WASHINGTON — Supreme Court Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy, the ideological fulcrum of the high court whose support for gay rights culminated in his 2015 decision striking down state bans ...

The left was stunned by the announcement that Justice Anthony Kennedy, one of the decisive swing votes on the Supreme Court, will retire next month, opening yet another lifetime appointment for ...

A Trump nominee is likely to be far more conservative than Kennedy, who, though appointed by President Ronald Reagan, voted with the court's liberals in some key cases. Kennedy, who will turn 82 ...

Reporting from Washington — Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, the Supreme Court centrist who for a generation has cast the deciding vote in the biggest cases, plans to retire, giving President Trump a ...

When Justice Anthony M. Kennedy announced his imminent retirement at the end of June 2018, it set the stage for a particularly momentous shift in the makeup of the Supreme Court, as Kennedy had ...

Kennedy's former clerk says his exit will "change the energy" of Supreme Court. Supreme Court justices often posed a simple question when unsure of how to rule in a case: What would Justice ...

Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy announced Wednesday that he will retire on July 31 — giving President Trump an opportunity to cement conservative control of the court.