Hi, this is Jim Denison with Dennis Informed, and this is the Daily

Article for Thursday, July 28, 2018.

Anthony Kennedy announced yesterday that he's retiring from the United States Supreme Court,

effective July 31st.

The Wall Street Journal called him one of the Supreme Court's most consequential modern-day

justices and author of landmark rulings on gay rights,

the death penalty, and campaign finance. The journal also noted the significance of Kennedy's

announcement, stating that his decision handed President Donald Trump a historic opportunity to reshape

the court. Anthony Kennedy was born and raised in Sacramento, California. He graduated

from Stanford University in 1958 with a BA in political science after spending his senior year

at the London School of Economics. He graduated from Harvard Law School in 1961, then served

a year in the California Army National Guard. He and his wife Mary were married in 1963 and are the parents of two sons and a daughter.

President Reagan nominated him for the Supreme Court in 1987.

He was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on a 97-0 vote.

He's one of five Catholic justices on the Supreme Court.

There have been only 13 such justices out of 113 in the court's history.

Justice Kennedy turns 82 on July 23rd.

He's the 14th longest serving justice in the court's history.

Anthony Kennedy is best known as the swing vote on many rulings across his tenure.

One biography describes him as a surprising and unpredictable justice on the Supreme Court,

displaying thoughtful independence that at times fails to reflect any particular ideology.

Most significantly, he wrote the majority opinion in Obergefell v. Hodges, the landmark

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