John Roberts Will Probably Be The Supreme Court’s Next Swing Justice

Ritchie King, Oliver Roeder and Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux, FiveThirtyEight: Politics
Wed, 06/27/2018 - 4:39pm

Justice Anthony Kennedy is retiring, which means the makeup of the Supreme Court is about to shift dramatically. For the past 12 years, since Justice Sandra Day O’Connor retired from the bench, Kennedy has been the court’s median justice, with four justices to the left of him and four to the right.

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