# Justice Anthony Kennedy announces retirement **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 27, 2018, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/justice-anthony-kennedy-announces-retirement/816855 "2018-06-27T18:13:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2018, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/justice-anthony-kennedy-announces-retirement/816855/1 "2018-06-27T18:13:48Z")
Well, this outta start an Epic Shitstorm. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2018, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/justice-anthony-kennedy-announces-retirement/816855/2 "2018-06-27T18:21:31Z")
Technically, Donald Junior’s degree is in economics but he’s been learning a lot about the law in the last couple of years. ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2018, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/justice-anthony-kennedy-announces-retirement/816855/3 "2018-06-27T18:21:51Z")
[Linky](https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/anthony-kennedy-retires-supreme-court/index.html). Looks like el Presidente gets another shot of court-packing ---
**Author:** ![Tio\_Gringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b5e925/32.png) [@Tio\_Gringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tio_Gringo)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2018, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/justice-anthony-kennedy-announces-retirement/816855/4 "2018-06-27T18:25:43Z")
They shouldn’t confirm anyone this close to the mid-term elections. Right? Right…? ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2018, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/justice-anthony-kennedy-announces-retirement/816855/5 "2018-06-27T18:40:17Z")
Kennedy is moving into Senior status. He’ll still be working behind the scenes. I assume administrative work? > **[Senior status](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senior_status)** > > Senior status is a form of semi-retirement for United States federal judges. To qualify, a judge in the federal court system must be at least 65 years old, and have served at least 10 years, and the sum of the judge's age and years of service as a federal judge must be at least 80 years. As long as senior judges carry at least a 25 percent caseload or meet other criteria for activity, they remain entitled to maintain a staffed office and chambers, including a secretary and their normal complem > [@](#): > > Senior status is defined by statutory law, specifically 28 U.S.C. § 371. To be in senior status, §371(e)(1) requires that a judge must be annually certified by the chief judge as having met at least one of the following criteria: > > Having carried, in the preceding calendar year, a caseload involving courtroom participation which is equal to or greater than the amount of similar work which an average judge in active service would perform in three months. §371(e)(1)(a). > > Having performed, in the preceding calendar year, substantial judicial duties not involving courtroom participation, but including settlement efforts, motion decisions, writing opinions in cases that have not been orally argued, and administrative duties for the court to which the justice or judge is assigned. §371(e)(1)(b). > > Having performed substantial administrative duties, either directly relating to the operation of the courts, or for a Federal or State governmental entity. §371(e)(1)(d) ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2018, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/justice-anthony-kennedy-announces-retirement/816855/6 "2018-06-27T18:42:37Z")
Technicaly, nothing prevents Kennedy from announcing that he’s calling off his retirement, right? (before he actually does leave, that is) ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2018, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/justice-anthony-kennedy-announces-retirement/816855/7 "2018-06-27T18:52:47Z")
We now have a Kennedy thread in MPSIMS, Elections, Great Debates and the Pit. Can anyone think of an angle for Thread Games or Cafe Society? Is there an old column on Kennedy we could ask a question about in the Comments/Mailbag forum ? ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2018, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/justice-anthony-kennedy-announces-retirement/816855/8 "2018-06-27T18:57:32Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > We now have a Kennedy thread in MPSIMS, Elections, Great Debates and the Pit. Can anyone think of an angle for Thread Games or Cafe Society? Is there an old column on Kennedy we could ask a question about in the Comments/Mailbag forum ? Well, I’d like to know Justice Kennedy’s favorite barbecue techniques. Also his favorite episodes of \*NCIS \*and \*Happy Days. \* ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2018, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/justice-anthony-kennedy-announces-retirement/816855/9 "2018-06-27T19:21:44Z")
I’ve heard Kennedy’s tuna salad is delicious. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2018, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/justice-anthony-kennedy-announces-retirement/816855/10 "2018-06-27T20:01:23Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > We now have a Kennedy thread in MPSIMS, Elections, Great Debates and the Pit. Can anyone think of an angle for Thread Games or Cafe Society? Is there an old column on Kennedy we could ask a question about in the Comments/Mailbag forum ? See? Epic Shitstorm! 😃