'Democracy is not guaranteed': Former conservative Supreme Court justice sounds alarm

'Democracy is not guaranteed': Former conservative Supreme Court justice sounds alarm

The Guardian reports retired U.S. supreme court justice Anthony Kennedy says “democracy is not guaranteed to survive” now that “partisanship is becoming much more prevalent and more bitter” in the Supreme Court.Speaking with NPR, Kennedy was asked whether he was confident the Supreme Court’s major decisions would remain intact. Seven years after his retirement, Kennedy said he had no self-assurance of that.“We live in an era where reasoned, thou…