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Change in the u.s. supreme court in half a century. that's because kennedy has often been the most influential justice casting the deciding vote. >> this was anthony kennedy's court because you couldn't get a major issue decided without his vote almost without exception if it was a critical hot button issue it was up to him. >> justice kennedy hand delivered this to the white house calling it a respectful and formal notification that he intends to retire july 31st. although ronald reagan put him on the court he's been the swing justice for 12 years since o'connor retired. when kennedy voted wi...

>> how hard was the push back in 2011 from members of congress? >> i don't want to speak for the democrats and i hope you have some of those ranking members there, but i know from the republican side, this wups who were there and it was not a big, classified briefing. just the chairs and top democrats of maybe five or six committees and i was chair as you pointed out of the foreign affairs committee, we were clear. we said there is no way we should be trading this soldier's life in exchange for a tral ban detainees because i think that this is a back handed attempt by the administration to eve...