{"id":133829,"date":"2025-09-24T14:03:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T22:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/09\/24\/former-scotus-justice-anthony-kennedy-rejects-swing-vote-label-in-new-memoir\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T14:03:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T22:03:09","slug":"former-scotus-justice-anthony-kennedy-rejects-swing-vote-label-in-new-memoir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/09\/24\/former-scotus-justice-anthony-kennedy-rejects-swing-vote-label-in-new-memoir\/","title":{"rendered":"Former SCOTUS Justice Anthony Kennedy Rejects \u2018Swing Vote\u2019 Label In New Memoir"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

The cases swung, not me<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\u2014 <\/i>Former Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy<\/a>, in a passage written in his upcoming memoir, \u201cLife, Law and Liberty\u201d<\/a> (affiliate link) set to be published on October 14. Kennedy, who stepped down from the high court in 2018, often found himself at the center of the nation\u2019s most polarizing issues<\/a>, ranging from abortion to gay rights to campaign finance. <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Staci Zaretsky<\/a>\u00a0is the managing editor of Above the Law, where she\u2019s worked since 2011. She\u2019d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email<\/a> her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on\u00a0Bluesky<\/a>,\u00a0X\/Twitter<\/a>, and\u00a0Threads<\/a>,\u00a0or connect with her on\u00a0LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

The cases swung, not me<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\u2014 <\/i>Former Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy<\/a>, in a passage written in his upcoming memoir, \u201cLife, Law and Liberty\u201d<\/a> (affiliate link) set to be published on October 14. Kennedy, who stepped down from the high court in 2018, often found himself at the center of the nation\u2019s most polarizing issues<\/a>, ranging from abortion to gay rights to campaign finance. <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\"Staci
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Staci Zaretsky<\/a>\u00a0is the managing editor of Above the Law, where she\u2019s worked since 2011. She\u2019d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email<\/a> her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on\u00a0Bluesky<\/a>,\u00a0X\/Twitter<\/a>, and\u00a0Threads<\/a>,\u00a0or connect with her on\u00a0LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. The cases swung, not me. \u2014 Former Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, in a passage written in his upcoming memoir, \u201cLife, Law and Liberty\u201d (affiliate link) set to be published on October 14. Kennedy, who stepped down from the high court in 2018, often […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":133821,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Staci-Zaretsky-mrZKDf.jpg?fit=150%2C100&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}