Ex-Supreme Court justice ripped for bemoaning election threat he helped create
Two analysts have hammered former Justice Anthony Kennedy for bemoaning a threat they say he helped create.
In an essay excerpt published Tuesday by Slate, adapted from "Master Plan," the new book from David Sirota and Jared Jacang Maher based on their award-winning podcast, the writers focus on how Kennedy's look back at his legacy might have come too late.
The authors focus on how Kennedy's memoir "Life, Law & Liberty" and its timing might indicate how he's trying to salvage what is left of his imprint on American life, namely how "Kennedy is now trying to shape his legacy on his own terms, and he says he’s worried about the survival of democracy—but democracy is in crisis in no small part because of the decision he authored," the analysts write. ...
