{"page":"\u003clink rel=\"stylesheet\" href=\"https://lessonplanet.com/assets/packs/css/resources-c03aa079.css\" /\u003e\n\u003clink rel=\"stylesheet\" href=\"https://lessonplanet.com/assets/packs/css/lp_boclips_stylesheets-517835be.css\" media=\"all\" /\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-title='Legal Expert: SCOTUS Left in Calcified State' data-url='/boclips/videos/5c54d7c8d8eafeecae20eb6c' data-video-url='/boclips/videos/5c54d7c8d8eafeecae20eb6c' id='bo_player_modal'\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='boclips-resource-page modal-dialog panel-container'\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='react-notifications-root'\u003e\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='rp-header'\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='rp-type'\u003e\n\u003ci aria-hidden='true' class='fai fa-regular fa-circle-play'\u003e\u003c/i\u003e\nVideo\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003ch1 class='rp-title' id='video-title'\u003e\nLegal Expert: SCOTUS Left in Calcified State\n\u003c/h1\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='rp-actions'\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='mr-1'\u003e\n\u003ca class=\"btn btn-success\" data-posthog-event=\"Signup: LP Signup Activity\" data-posthog-location=\"body_link_boclips\" data-remote=\"true\" href=\"/subscription/new\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan\u003eGet Free Access\u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"\"\u003e for 10 Days\u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e!\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='rp-body'\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='rp-info'\u003e\n\u003cdiv aria-label='Hide resource details' class='rp-hide-info' role='button' tabindex='0'\u003e\u0026times;\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003ci aria-label='Expand resource details' class='rp-expand-info fai fa-solid fa-up-right-and-down-left-from-center' role='button' tabindex='0'\u003e\u003c/i\u003e\n\u003ci aria-label='Compress resource details' class='rp-compress-info fai fa-solid fa-down-left-and-up-right-to-center' role='button' tabindex='0'\u003e\u003c/i\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='rp-rating'\u003e\n\u003cspan class='resource-pool'\u003e\n\u003cspan class='pool-label'\u003ePublisher:\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='pool-name'\u003e\n\u003cspan class='text'\u003e\u003ca data-publisher-id=\"30356011\" href=\"/search?publisher_ids%5B%5D=30356011\"\u003eCurated Video\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='rp-description'\u003e\n\u003cspan class='short-description'\u003eJustice Anthony Kennedy's successor will have a chance over a likely decades-long career to tackle a host of big issues in the law and have a role in shaping the answers to them.               Constitutional Law Professor Jonathan Turley...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eJustice Anthony Kennedy's successor will have a chance over a likely decades-long career to tackle a host of big issues in the law and have a role in shaping the answers to them. \u003cbr/\u003e              Constitutional Law Professor Jonathan Turley of George Washington University said that the court will go through an \"incremental process, but it is going to change\" with Justice Kennedy's departure.  \u003cbr/\u003e              \"He leaves the court in a calcified state of a hardened left and right with nobody in that middle position. The new justice is likely to be more conservative than he is,\" Turley said.\u003cbr/\u003e              Most court-watchers and interest groups are focused on abortion and whether a more conservative justice may mean more restrictions on abortions get upheld or even whether the 1973 Roe v. Wade abortion decision affirming a woman's right to abortion might someday be overturned. \u003cbr/\u003e              But Kennedy's replacement will quickly confront a host of issues, some prominent and others not. Whomever President Donald Trump chooses, the person is expected to move the court to the right. \u003cbr/\u003e              Conservative groups, seeing a court friendlier to their views, might look at the new court and think it's time to bring challenges to liberal laws currently on the books. \u003cbr/\u003e              And conservative state lawmakers may also attempt to pass legislation testing boundaries they wouldn't have while Kennedy was on the court.\u003cbr/\u003e            \u003cbr/\u003e\u003cbr/\u003e              ASSOCIATED PRESS \u003cbr/\u003e              McLean, Virginia - 28 June 2018\u003cbr/\u003e              1. Wide of Jonathan Turley, Constitutional Law Professor at George Washington University\u003cbr/\u003e              2. SOUNDBITE (English) Jonathan Turley, Constitutional Law Professor at George Washington University:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"He leaves the court in a calcified state of a hardened left and right with nobody in that middle position. The new justice is likely to be more conservative than he is. You only have to select a slightly more conservative nominee to get cascading results across about half a dozen areas of law.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              POOL \u003cbr/\u003e              Washington - 1 June 2017\u003cbr/\u003e              3. US Supreme Court justices pose for class photo\u003cbr/\u003e              ASSOCIATED PRESS \u003cbr/\u003e              McLean, Virginia - 28 June 2018\u003cbr/\u003e              4. SOUNDBITE (English) Jonathan Turley, Constitutional Law Professor at George Washington University:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"It's very unlikely that you would get five justices to just start lobbing the heads off major cases. So I think this will be an incremental process, but it is going to change. You will see many Kennedy decisions go down, I think, in the coming years. This is a fragile legacy and it existed only as long as Kennedy was on that court or someone of his model took his place. Trump was not talking about replacing a Kennedy with a Kennedy. And anyone who thinks that that's a possibility doesn't know this president.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              POOL \u003cbr/\u003e              Washington - 1 June 2017\u003cbr/\u003e              5. US Supreme Court justices pose for class photo\u003cbr/\u003e              ASSOCIATED PRESS \u003cbr/\u003e              McLean, Virginia - 28 June 2018\u003cbr/\u003e              6. SOUNDBITE (English) Jonathan Turley, Constitutional Law Professor at George Washington University:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"It's probably not likely that we will see a frontal assault on Roe v. Wade. It's possible, but it's much more likely that the court will chip away at Roe v. Wade through collateral issues, state laws governing conditions timing for the use of the right to an abortion.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              ASSOCIATED PRESS\u003cbr/\u003e              Los Angeles, California - 31 January 2011\u003cbr/\u003e              7. STILL U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy presides over arguments \u003cbr/\u003e              ASSOCIATED PRESS \u003cbr/\u003e              McLean, Virginia - 28 June 2018\u003cbr/\u003e              8. SOUNDBITE (English) Jonathan Turley, Constitutional Law Professor at George Washington University:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"Same-sex marriage could well be in danger. I would be very surprised if there was a challenge to the original case of Lawrence v. Texas and that does show that this court has changed.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              ASSOCIATED PRESS \u003cbr/\u003e              Washington, DC - 4 June 2018\u003cbr/\u003e              9. Wide of Supreme Court house after justices ruled for baker in same-sex wedding case\u003cbr/\u003e              ASSOCIATED PRESS \u003cbr/\u003e              McLean, Virginia - 28 June 2018\u003cbr/\u003e              10. SOUNDBITE (English) Jonathan Turley, Constitutional Law Professor at George Washington University:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"Where you are likely to see some inroads are on issues like protecting LGBT rights in restaurants and shops and contracting. It's unlikely that this new majority is going to embrace sexual orientation as a type of classification that we use for race or gender. So you will see a slowing of the expansion of those protections.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              ASSOCIATED PRESS \u003cbr/\u003e              Washington - 4 June 2018\u003cbr/\u003e              11. Close of woman holding sign outside of Supreme Court house after justices ruled for baker in same-sex wedding case\u003cbr/\u003e              ASSOCIATED PRESS\u003cbr/\u003e              McLean, Virginia - 28 June 2018\u003cbr/\u003e              12. SOUNDBITE (English) Jonathan Turley, Constitutional Law Professor at George Washington University:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"Where I think you'll likely see a lot of activity early on is in the area of affirmative action. The Supreme Court made a mess out of this area going back to the 1970s. Regardless of how you feel about affirmative action, lower courts complain continually that the standards they were given from the Supreme Court were unintelligible and they were right. I mean. these opinions often ended up in a 5-4 compromise and the standard was difficult to discern.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              ASSOCIATED PRESS \u003cbr/\u003e              Washington - 23 March 2015\u003cbr/\u003e              13. STILL Justice Anthony Kennedy testifies before a House Committee on Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services hearing \u003cbr/\u003e              ASSOCIATED PRESS\u003cbr/\u003e              McLean, Virginia - 28 June 2018\u003cbr/\u003e              14. SOUNDBITE (English) Jonathan Turley, Constitutional Law Professor at George Washington University:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"The new justice is very likely to give a stable fifth vote to the right side of the court and it may ultimately end race-based admissions in colleges and universities.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              ASSOCIATED PRESS\u003cbr/\u003e              Washington - 12 January 2016\u003cbr/\u003e              15. STILL Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan, from left, Chief Justice John Roberts, Justice Anthony Kennedy, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Justice Stephen Breyer, and Justice Sonia Sotomayor arrive before President Barack Obama delivers the State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress on Capitol Hill \u003cbr/\u003e              ASSOCIATED PRESS\u003cbr/\u003e              McLean, Virginia - 28 June 2018\u003cbr/\u003e              16. SOUNDBITE (English) Jonathan Turley, Constitutional Law Professor at George Washington University:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"Timing could not be worse for the Democrats, could not be better for the Trump administration. It was surprising that Kennedy retired before the midterms. If he had retired after the midterms, it's more likely that a moderate nominee would have been selected. The Democrats are in a tough position. They could end up with a largely pedestrian view to this confirmation. Without the filibuster rule, which was eliminated during the Gorsuch nomination, they don't have much of a hold on this process anymore.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              17. 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