United States Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy said on Wednesday that he will retire effective July 31. The 81-year-old was nominated to to the highest American court by Ronald Reagan and appointed as associate justice in 1988.
"For a member of the legal profession, it is the highest of honors to serve on this Court," Kennedy wrote in a letter to US President Donald Trump. "Please permit me by this letter to express my profound gratitude for having had the privilege to seek in each case how best to know, interpret and defend the Constitution and the laws that must always conform to its mandates and promises."
