Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, Neil Gorsuch, and Brett Kavanaugh at Thursday’s State of the Union address.On Thursday evening, President Joe Biden delivered the final State of the Union address of his first term, and he used the occasion to administer what could only be read as ato the Supreme Court justices—assembled in all their black-robed glory, sitting stone-faced in front of him.
I think there’s something powerful in the symbolism of retired Justice Anthony Kennedy sitting there, also Catholic, also does not like or approve of abortion. And yet, but for his replacement with Brett Kavanaugh, we would not be in this boat.