With his selection of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to fill Justice Anthony Kennedy's seat on the United States Supreme Court, President Donald Trump has the opportunity to alter the makeup of the Court for generations—and to place it far to the right of the American public. Justice Kennedy, himself a conservative appointed by President Ronald Reagan, proved to have an open mind in his more than thirty years on the bench, and, as a result, kept the Court within the mainstream of American society.
Kennedy often voted with his conservative colleagues, including in gutting the Voting Rights Act, restricting workers' access to courts to challenge discrimination on the job, and upholding President Trump's Muslim travel ban. But Kennedy was also willing to join his more liberal colleagues.
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