BS Prods Justice Kennedy to Condemn New Court, Questions His Free Speech Ruling

Tuesday’s PBS News Hour hosted retired liberal-leaning Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy and tried to get him to condemn the current right-leaning Supreme Court, while making liberal assumptions regarding Kennedy’s judicial philosophy. Kennedy, who retired in 2018, talked about his new memoir, Life, Law & Liberty.

Bennett politely prodded Kennedy to justify his principled, First Amendment-friendly ruling in the pivotal campaign finance case Citizens United, the 2010 decision in which the Supreme Court reaffirmed the First Amendment right of corporations and citizens to spend money for or against candidates in federal elections.