REPORT: Former Supreme Court Justice Names “Threat To Democracy”

February 10, 2019

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Retired Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy warned university students that democracy is endangered by the decline of free and open civic debate.

“We have a social framework of decency that we’re very quickly losing,” Kennedy said, according to the San Francisco Chronicle, which was on hand during the recent event at the UC Hastings College of Law. Without that framework, he explained, free societies cannot endure.

The article goes on to state the following:

Elsewhere in his remarks, the justice bemoaned the “egocentrism that the cyber age has brought us.”

“Our young people in the cyber age don’t think the past is important,” Kennedy said. “If it’s not on your screen, it’s not important.”

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— The Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) February 10, 2019