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Dr. Milton C. David: Justice Kennedy seems to have lost his footing

Has Chief Justice Earl Warren’s favorite poem become reality today? According to his grandson, Jeff, the poem is as follows:

“You don’t go down with a short hard fall,

you just sort of shuffle along,

‘till you lighten your load with the moral code

and you can’t tell right from wrong.”

Has Justice Kennedy fulfilled Chief Justice Warren’s worst fear?

Milton C. David, MD, Modesto

This story was originally published July 2, 2015 at 11:40 AM with the headline "Dr. Milton C. David: Justice Kennedy seems to have lost his footing."

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