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• The court decided, based on its reading of our precedents, that the effects test of Lemon is violated whenever government action creates an identification of the state with a religion, or with religion in general, ...or when the effect of the governmental action is to endorse one religion over another, or to endorse religion in general.

  Anthony Kennedy

  Reading, Government, Tests

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• There's substance to the point that sociological information is new. We have five years of information to weigh against 2,000 years of history or more.

  Anthony Kennedy

  Gay, Years, Substance

  "“A Historic Moment”: California Couple on Decades-Long Legal Struggle for Marriage Equality". Interview with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. March 27, 2013.

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• The Government may not suppress lawful speech as the means to suppress unlawful speech.

  Anthony Kennedy

  Mean, Government, Freedom Of Speech

  "Not Real? Not Porn" by David G. Savage, ABA Journal, Volume 88, June 2002.

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• A law imposing criminal penalties on protected speech is a stark example of speech suppression.

  Anthony Kennedy

  Law, Freedom Of Speech, Criminals

  "Excerpts From Opinions in Ruling on the Child Pornography Prevention Act". www.nytimes.com. April 17, 2002.

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• In the political context fair means somebody that will vote for the unions or for the business. It can't mean that in the judicial context or we're in real trouble.

  Anthony Kennedy

  Real, Mean, Political

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• No one questions the validity, the urgency, the essentiality of the Voting Rights Act.

  Anthony Kennedy

  Rights, Voting, Right To Vote

  "Justice Kennedy: Voting Rights Act might now be unfair" by Joan Biskupic, abcnews.go.com.

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• It is proper that we acknowledge the overwhelming weight of international opinion against the juvenile death penalty.

  Anthony Kennedy

  Weight, Death Penalty, Opinion

  United States Supreme Court, Roper, Superintendent, Potosi Correctional Center v. Simmons, (2005), No. 03-633, IV, caselaw.findlaw.com. March 1, 2005.

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• Family members have a personal stake in honoring and mourning their dead and objecting to unwarranted public exploitation that, by intruding upon their own grief, tends to degrade the rites and respect they seek to accord to the deceased person who was once their own.

  Anthony Kennedy

  Grief, Mourning, Members

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• Asking questions is an essential part of police investigation. In the ordinary sense a police officer is free to ask a person for identification without implicating the Fourth Amendment.

  Anthony Kennedy

  Asking Questions, Police, Ordinary

  "Supreme Court rejects pledge challenge" by Bill Mears, www.cnn.com. August 23, 2004.

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• You have plaintiffs attorneys, you have defense attorneys. So there is no unified bar that will protect a particular judge who has made a courageous decision that's unpopular.

  Anthony Kennedy

  Judging, Decision, Defense

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