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Ramon Antonio Vargas

Retired US supreme court justice fears ‘democracy is not guaranteed to survive’

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Anthony Kennedy, a retired supreme court justice, attends Donald Trump's address to a joint session of Congress at the US Capitol on 4 March 2025 in Washington DC. Photograph: Win McNamee/Getty Images

Retired US supreme court justice Anthony Kennedy fears “democracy is not guaranteed to survive” as “partisanship is becoming much more prevalent and more bitter” in the legal opinions coming from his former institution, he tells NPR in an upcoming interview.

Strikingly, for the interview set to publish in October, NPR’s Nina Totenberg said she asked Kennedy whether he was still sure the supreme court’s major decisions would remain intact – as he told a small group of journalists that he was when he retired in 2018 during Donald Trump’s first presidency.

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