No one questions the validity, the urgency, the essentiality of the Voting Rights Act.

Louisiana. In 2005 Tom Delay criticized Kennedy for his reliance on international law and for conducting his own Internet research. Since Kennedy's conception of abortion rights is narrower than O'Connor's this led to a slightly more lenient view of abortion restrictions after 2006.

Anthony McLeod Kennedy (born July 23 1936) is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States who was appointed by President Ronald Reagan in 1988.