He'll be thinking of legacy, and 50 years out this will be obviously right
(NEWSER) - Now that a federal judge has ruled in favor of overturning Proposition 8, all eyes are on the Supreme Court, and more specifically, on one man: Anthony Kennedy. The perennial swing voter seems likely to swing this case, too, and Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight.com thinks he’ll swing it in favor of gay rights. Intellectually, Kennedy could probably make an honest argument for either side, so Silver figures external factors will probably win out (despite, he notes, the fiction that external factors don't sway justices). More»
