Kennedy attended a local Sacramento high school and Stanford University. He spent a year of his undergraduate studies at the London School of Economics and earned his A.B. and a Phi Beta Kappa key in 1958. Prof. Robert A. Horn, now emeritus, who taught Mr. Kennedy’s constitutional law, remembers him as "extremely intelligent" and scholarly even as an undergraduate. "He was conservative but not a right-wing ideologue," Professor Horn said. "His personality is such that I cannot imagin

Off the bench, the judge is an avid reader of history and classic literature, such as Shakespeare, and occasionally plays golf at a local country club. His approach to life suggests a small-town innocence. When his local gas station closed down after 24 years, he lamented to The Sacramento Bee, "It is the kind of place where I can get my car serviced and talk about politics and law and life all at the same time." His only brother died in a surfing accident in Hawaii, his only sister died of cancer and his mother died shortly thereafter. "The death of his brother, sister and mother coming so soon after each other was an awful lot to bear," said Robert M. Wheatley, a former law partner.

The case evidence provided powerful support for the finding that AETC's exclusion of Forbes was not the result of “political pressure from anyone inside or outside [AETC AETC excluded Forbes because the voters lacked interest in his candidacy, not because AETC itself did. The broadcaster's decision to exclude Forbes was a reasonable, viewpoint-neutral exercise of journalistic discretion consistent with the First Amendment.”

In 1973, Meese asked Anthony to help Reagan draw up a plan to help cut taxes and spending. Kennedy helped draft Proposition One, a ballot initiative to limit the state's spending. He campaigned throughout California to promote the proposal, winning a respect. The initiative failed, but Reagan rewarded Kennedy for his work by recommending him to President Gerald Ford for a vacancy on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. In his confirmation hearings for the Federal appeals court in 1975 Kennedy characterized his law practice as "widely diversified," including "people with individual legal problems, divorce, minor criminal, probate matters, my acquaintances from my many years in Sacramento" and "some very major companies." But the bulk of his practice, he told the committee, was representing businesses in the "middle of the spectrum."

Reagan then turned to Douglas Ginsburg, a judge from the U.S. Court of Appeals in the District of Columbia Circuit. Ginsburg, withdrew himself from consideration after only nine days when allegations leaked concerning his past marijuana use. Meese recommended Anthony to Reagan to Kennedy to fill the vacancy on the Supreme Court. Kennedy's nomination encountered little r

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