Justice Kennedy’s retirement and its impact on gun rights

By Chris Eger

Anthony M. Kennedy, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, swears in Supreme Court Justice Neil M. Gorsuch on Monday, April 10, 2017, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Shealah Craighead/Official White House photo)
Justice Anthony Kennedy announced Wednesday that he was resigning from the U.S. Supreme Court, a move that will have big implications for the federal bench.
Kennedy, a 1988 appointee of President Reagan and a month away from his 82nd birthday, wrote President Trump this week in a brief one-page letter declaring his intention to leave the bench at the end of July. He expressed his “profound gratitude for having had the privilege to seek in each case how best to know, interpret, and defend the Constitution and the laws that must always conform to its mandates and promises.”
Kennedy, who graduated from Harvard Law in 1961 and came to the Supreme Court from the West Coast’s U.S. 9th Circuit, was pegged as a conservative, for example, in penning the ruling on Citizen’s United, an important case on election spending by corporations. He also notably swung to the left on a number of issues in a court divided nominally into five

Source: Guns.com