User Clip: Ronald Reagan argues for new Sup. Ct. Justice near the end of his term
President Ronald Reagan nominates Anothony Kennedy to the Supreme Court less than 14 months before he will leave office.
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President Ronald Reagan nominates Anothony Kennedy to the Supreme Court less than 14 months before he will leave office.
Ronald Reagan says it is a "constitutional obligation (to restore) the United States Supreme Court to full strength." Kennedy would be confirmed in February 1998, smack dab in the middle of…
Reagan calling Kennedy a "true conservative"
President Reagan announced the nomination of Judge Anthony Kennedy to the Supreme Court on November 12, 1987.
Calls for a bipartisan effort to approve nomination during his last year in office