Is Anthony Kennedy 'the first gay jtice'? | CNN Polics

Contents:

• IS ANTHONY KENNEDY ‘THE FIRST GAY JTICE’?
• WHO’S THE GAYT SUPREME COURT JTICE?
• A SECRET AL BETWEEN JTIC JOHN ROBERTS AND ANTHONY KENNEDY ON GAY RIGHTS AND WHAT MEANS TODAY

IS ANTHONY KENNEDY ‘THE FIRST GAY JTICE’?

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WHO’S THE GAYT SUPREME COURT JTICE?

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A SECRET AL BETWEEN JTIC JOHN ROBERTS AND ANTHONY KENNEDY ON GAY RIGHTS AND WHAT MEANS TODAY

What’s next for gay rights movement? “If Bill Clton was ‘the first black print, ’ Anthony Kennedy has now firmly secured his place history as ‘the first gay jtice, ’” said Michael Dorf, a law profsor at Cornell Universy and a former Kennedy law clerk.

“Jtice Kennedy mak clear that he not only accepts, but wel the task of wrg majtic opns affirmg the digny of gay persons and upl.

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