Trump's professions of enduring gratitude for Roberts are understandably getting the most attention, but if I am hearing correctly, a few seconds earlier, Anthony Kennedy tells Trump, "You're teaching young people to love America" youtu.be/Wo_uknQLZog?... - ThreadSky

jaywillis.net • 6 days ago

Trump's professions of enduring gratitude for Roberts are understandably getting the most attention, but if I am hearing correctly, a few seconds earlier, Anthony Kennedy tells Trump, "You're teaching young people to love America" https://youtu.be/Wo_uknQLZog?si=FOYrs5ZvhvTwxqSO&t=23

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kbeveridge.bsky.social•6 days ago

Gross

chbp.bsky.social•6 days ago

it‘s called groveling

terrih.bsky.social•6 days ago

he tells Roberts, "thanks, I won't forget it"

raywoodson5.bsky.social•6 days ago

… by betraying America

heiz16.bsky.social•6 days ago

Holy shit is that terrible. Explains a lot though.

yana-tx.bsky.social•6 days ago

After having to regulate my breathing to stop my gag reflex, my mouth involuntarily shouts out “fuck no”

pupsrule.bsky.social•6 days ago

If this is what "Justice" Kennedy believes is teaching children to love America... it's more obvious than ever that he's a partial MAGA lowlife

sirelghinn.bsky.social•5 days ago

I’d still really like to know what that was about when there was that video of Justice Kennedy freaking out on Trump out of earshot or a hot mic at the White House during his retirement announcement. Having trouble finding the video now, though 😖

catherinejross.bsky.social•6 days ago

Can we get one of those experts to verify what Retired Justice Kennedy said?

anita72.bsky.social•6 days ago

Yes, your kid helped him launder money through Deutsche Bank.

spenceinaustin.bsky.social•6 days ago

A good reminder that SCOTUS justices are with rare exception not intellectual giants and are where they are because of political connections and ideology. Practically any decently successful appellate attorney could do as good a job as any of the current crop.

brienmcmullen.bsky.social•6 days ago

I would just like to understand why they're all Catholic.

andreab75.bsky.social•5 days ago

Easy: Leonard Leo and the Federalist Society has been working to own the SC and the Judicial system for decades to make the US an extreme religious theocracy/ oligarchy

brienmcmullen.bsky.social•5 days ago

But why Catholic? America conservatives are mostly protestant, Evangelical, Baptist etc...
Traditionally they would have been bigots against Catholics, and they sometimes still are.
Is it abortion? Or something about power structure of Catholicism?

andreab75.bsky.social•5 days ago

Because Leo is a member of Opus Dei and the knights of Malta, extreme groups, and he had a vision to have the US ruled under Catholic doctrine. Hence, no abortion, even to save a woman's life, where protestants allowed that in the past. He doesn't mind if RC isn't up in front as long as that's law

andreab75.bsky.social•5 days ago

Read Senator Sheldon Whitehouse. He's been trying to get this exposed since Trump's 1st term

jrmiv.bsky.social•5 days ago

another data point here for ACB hating trump...if you watch the video it's there plain as day

sgtwaddles42.bsky.social•6 days ago

It's been driving me crazy trying to figure out what Kennedy said, so thanks

blynch616.bsky.social•6 days ago

Kennedy can toss my salad.

voyageurs59.bsky.social•6 days ago

That's what he said. He's living in another century. No respect!

joshuajfriedman.com•6 days ago

Good lord

jaywillis.net•6 days ago

Kennedy has always been a conservative, but he also wrote Obergefell less than a decade ago, which speaks to how little attention legal pundits pay to how the justices’ ideologies (like anyone else’s) evolve as they get older, which is a real blind sp hang on I should be typing into a CMS here huh

louisevans.bsky.social•6 days ago

serious question as to whether it should be literally illegal for SCOTUS justices to look at twitter

joshuajfriedman.com•6 days ago

Yes!! My first thought was Obergefell. I'm trying to imagine what Kennedy thinks is the strongest example of Trump instilling pro-American values in the youth. Or is it all vibes?

Looking forward to reading your aging-justice take! Seems like a bookend to this one

jaywillis.net•6 days ago

I’ll save it for the obi—

lsepper.bsky.social•6 days ago

Y'all, he handpicked Kavanaugh. He killed Obergefell and maybe Lawrence the day he retired. So gross to recall the sycophants calling him the "gay rights justice"

hammbear2024.bsky.social•6 days ago

Whatever they did over the final two years to ramp up more raging partisanship sure worked. He always sucked on most things, but once that shift happened, you knew he was going to hand Trump a big gift.

billypilgrim65.bsky.social•6 days ago

He wrote one decent decision and it blinded a whole generation of legal journalists and academics. And because he had such swing power ever had to play nice to him. Look where that got us

slownova.bsky.social•6 days ago

This is why the GOP is killing Alzheimer's research and why they oppose term limits. Sort of kidding but mainly not. Why do Americans seem to age like warm milk? Where's the patience, grace, humility, and wisdom old age is supposed to bring?

singhitis.bsky.social•6 days ago

Even the Supreme Court justices lack critical thinking skills in 2025 America. SMDH

jonfromrhodeisland.bsky.social•6 days ago

…as your father loved you.

peachysmom.bsky.social•6 days ago

This should be used at his future criminal trials.

jycef.bsky.social•6 days ago

You mean the guy who traded his seat on the bench so that his son could keep his job as the relationship manager at the German bank who funded the Trump Organization?

anita72.bsky.social•6 days ago

Yes, that guy.

summer65.bsky.social•6 days ago

I'm flabbergasted by this kind of thing. THIS is what they were working toward all this time?

billypilgrim65.bsky.social•6 days ago

Absolutely fuck that man.

nrvschultz.bsky.social•6 days ago

This is disgusting, and I assume Anthony Kennedy is also senile if he believes that!

democracytheway.bsky.social•4 days ago

@glennkirschner.bsky.social @joycewhitevance.bsky.social
What do you two hear Justice Kennedy say to Trump in this video?

sandy5.bsky.social•6 days ago

Was it genuine thanks or was it a message, like “I take your opinions very personally and I liked this one, so you’d better keep it up”. Hard to imagine him feeling genuine gratitude.

publica.bsky.social•6 days ago

It's funny because all of Kennedy's work on the court is being erased by the Trump appointees. He basically never existed.

saneenglish.bsky.social•6 days ago

What's the exchange with Kavanaugh? Couldn't make it out.

yuweiquan.bsky.social•6 days ago

I love America, but I also have ideas of WHY I love America, and I hate seeing those ideas being obliterated by this guy.

abracadabrainhere.bsky.social•6 days ago

🤢

jameswest2024.bsky.social•6 days ago

Racist old cunt

kddrock.bsky.social•6 days ago

Delusional Geriatric White Guys with WAY TOO MUCH POWER!

voyageurs59.bsky.social•6 days ago

👆💯

cutterwgonzalez.bsky.social•6 days ago

What is Kennedy smoking? Good lord.

jmlandau.bsky.social•6 days ago

WTF is retired Justice Kennedy doing there? Nothing to do at the retirement home?

susubrooks.bsky.social•6 days ago

Complete insanity.

jaywillis.net•6 days ago

Anthony Kennedy is never beating the allegations lolol

joshualenon.bsky.social•6 days ago

Nor should he.

andriskowalski.bsky.social•6 days ago

You could tell from his last term, where Roberts voted with the libs more, that he was absolutely sold on trump

jaywillis.net•6 days ago

In seriousness, if Anthony Kennedy really thinks Trump is “teaching young people to love America,” imagine the shit Thomas and Alito and Gorsuch are saying, those guys are somehow even more far gone than I thought

scrivener45.bsky.social•6 days ago

albadawn.bsky.social•6 days ago

There was a time that I just presumed SCOTUS was comprised of the most thoughtful legal minds in the country. Now it’s just compromised.

thelasttheorist.bsky.social•6 days ago

When Gorsuch was nominated, one of my Dem senators wrote in his newsletter that it was great because Gorsuch was from Colorado. Good times.

blugolds34.bsky.social•4 days ago

Kenndy, white guy born in America in 1936 to a prominent family. Born on 3rd base...upset that kids today have questions.

Unbelievable and awful.

kobenhavn-kbh.bsky.social•6 days ago

Weird the author of Obergefell believes that …

phoos76.bsky.social•6 days ago

Mob.

tcar2000.bsky.social•6 days ago

Who would’ve thought that consistently electing fascists and allowing fascists to appoint Supreme Court justices would have any adverse repercussions? 🤷🏻‍♀️