Leonard Leo, the outside adviser to President Trump for judicial nominations and the Executive Vice President of the Federalist Society, released a statement minutes after the announcement of Justice Anthony Kennedy’s retirement praising his service and conservative rulings.
“[Kennedy] has cared deeply about the relationship between the Constitution and individual liberty, and played a key role in helping to shape the Supreme Court’s conservative jurisprudence in the areas of campaign finance and the First Amendment, gun rights and the Second Amendment, the separation of powers and federalism, and reasonable restrictions on abortion, such as the partial-birth abortion ban,” Leo said in the statement.
“I thank him for the sacrifices he and his family have made in more than three decades,” he concluded.
Leo was the guy that paid for Gorsuch, right? Wonder when we’ll get around to investigating that scandal.
Nobody here gives an eff. I feel like I’m reading a transcript of a terrible NPR news segment, where some ideologue is invited on to give their usual spiel without any challenge.
This is the first time I’ve been wrong when I thought the article I was reading on TPM was from the AP.