Justice Anthony Kennedy steps down and the world goes insane. I'm Ben Shapiro. This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

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I'll give you all the updates on the news, and we'll go through what this means. The Justice Anthony Kennedy, who, as I have said, many times on this program, made up his mind on how to vote based on whether he had his metamusell that morning. He's going to step down. I'll explain everything that means in just a second. And first I want to remind you that we have a special live stream this coming Monday, July 2nd, 7 p.m. Eastern,

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PolicyGenius.com. Okay. So yesterday, after we finished this podcast, Anthony Kennedy stepped down and blew up the world. So I was not expecting Justice Anthony Kennedy to step down from his position

on the Supreme Court.

And the fact is that I think most people were hit by a truck over this.

Most people in the Trump administration were very surprised by this.

Maybe President Trump was not because maybe he'd be having discussions with Justice Kennedy.

But there are a lot of people who are very surprised by Justice Kennedy stepping down,

specifically because most of his legacy is going to be the gay rights stuff, right? He was the

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