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Dahlia Lithwick: ?What will Anthony Kennedy do on gay marriage??

By Alliance Alert

Dahlia Lithwick writing at Slate: "Kennedy himself has become the Rorschach test, with both sides importing their worst fears onto their assessment of his future vote. Still, it's the only question anyone's asking . . . For a bit of deeper insight, I turned to a 2004 paper called 'The Gay Rights Jurisprudence of Anthony Kennedy,' by Artemus Ward, a professor of political science at Northern Illinois University . . . [Ward] concludes that Kennedy's 'opinions in Romer and Lawrence can be considered precedent to expand gay rights, including gay marriage. At the same time, they could constrain his choices and he could be unwilling to extend his position to more controversial gay rights claims.' And that's pretty much the uncertain Kennedy landscape we've all come to recognize."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on August 16, 2010 (boomark / email).