Word: sacramento
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Douglas Ginsburg, few liberals or conservatives were in any mood for another knockdown brawl. And, at least at first glance, one seems unlikely. No one could find anything in either Kennedy's Norman Rockwell personal background or his twelve-year record on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in Sacramento that would prevent him from being confirmed as the nation's 104th Supreme Court Justice, and potentially a long-serving one. At 51, Kennedy is young enough to be shaping court decisions well into the 21st century, long after some aging present Justices are gone...
Former students of Kennedy's at the McGeorge School of Law in Sacramento report that he spent much class time discussing privacy cases. He gave some the impression that, unlike Bork, he does recognize a constitutionally protected right to privacy. But he seemed sympathetic when a student once argued that Roe vs. Wade, the 1973 abortion-right decision, was a political compromise, not solidly based on constitutional principles...
...small, elegant office on the fifth floor of the Justice Department. In armchairs that faced one another sat Meese, Howard Baker and a clutch of lieutenants. In their midst was Anthony Kennedy, a potential Supreme Court nominee, who had been flown to Washington on an Air Force jet from Sacramento the evening before, carrying only a small overnight bag. The interrogation ran through 21 pages of single-spaced questions. Was your wife pregnant when you married? No. Have you ever visited a massage parlor? No. Have you seen other women since you were married? No. Have you ever participated...
...doors away. Indeed, the beardless and bespectacled Kennedy has a life story that sounds as if it were directed by Frank Capra. Married in 1963 to Mary Davis, an elementary schoolteacher with whom he has three children, Kennedy has stuck to his roots. He was born and raised in Sacramento, and he lives in the same white colonial house on a curving, tree-shaded street that his lawyer father built half a century ago. He graduated from Stanford University, spent a year at the London School of Economics and earned his law degree from Harvard in 1961. He has remained...
...father was one of Sacramento's most colorful lobbyists, a glad-handing, shoulder-rubbing wheeler-dealer. Upon his father's death in 1963, Kennedy left a lucrative San Francisco practice and returned to Sacramento to straighten out affairs and eventually take over the practice. Though the younger Kennedy kept clients like Schenley liquor distillers and the state's association of opticians, he mainly provided legal advice and drafted legislation. In testifying before the legislature on constitutional issues, Kennedy came to the attention of California Governor Ronald Reagan and his executive assistant Ed Meese. In 1973 they asked him to write...