A January 2017 assessment by the US Office of the Director of National Intelligence claimed that Russian leadership favored presidential
candidate Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton, adding that Russian president Vladimir Putin personally ordered an "influence campaign" to harm
Clinton's electoral chances and "undermine public faith in the US democratic process."
February 9, 2017 Executive Order 13775
Providing an Order of Succession Within the Department of Justice
March 2, 2017
WASHINGTON — Attorney General Jeff Sessions, facing a storm of criticism over newly disclosed contacts with the Russian ambassador to the
United States, recused himself on Thursday…
May 17, 2017 Robert Mueller was appointed by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein as special counsel overseeing an ongoing investigation
into Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election and related matters.
June 27, 2018 WASHINGTON — Justice Anthony M. Kennedy announced on Wednesday that he would retire this summer,
My dear Mr. President,
This letter is a respectful and formal notification of my decision, effective July 31 of this year, to end my regular active status as an
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, while continuing to serve in a senior status, as provided in 28 U.S.C 371 (b).
For a member of the legal profession it is the highest of honors to serve on this Court. 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.
Respectfully and sincerely,
Anthony M. Kennedy
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/28/371
1(c) of this section and shall, during the remainder of his or her lifetime, continue to receive the salary of the office if he or she meets
the requirements of subsection (e).
(e)
(1) In order to continue receiving the salary of the office under subsection (b), a justice must be certified in each calendar year by the
Chief Justice, and a judge must be certified by the chief judge of the circuit in which the judge sits, as having met the requirements set
forth in at least one of the following subparagraphs:
(A) The justice or judge must have carried in the preceding calendar year a caseload involving courtroom participation which is equal to or
greater than the amount of work involving courtroom participation which an average judge in active service would perform in three months. In
the instance of a justice or judge who has sat on both district courts and courts of appeals, the caseload of appellate work and trial work
shall be determined separately and the results of those determinations added together for purposes of this paragraph.
In 1975, President Gerald Ford appointed Kennedy to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/justice-anthony-kennedy-in-retirement-a-different-life
Justice Anthony Kennedy in retirement: A different life
July 30, 2018 by Lyle Denniston
Federal law permits a retired Justice to continue service in the lower federal judiciary, and most retired Justices do that on an appeals
court rather than the federal trial courts, known as district courts. Retired Justices do not become regular members of an appeals court;
they go on temporary assignments, made by Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr., as part of his duties as the head of the federal court system.
John Glover Roberts Jr. is an American attorney serving as the 17th and current Chief Justice of the United States, since 2005. He was
nominated by President George W. Bush after the death of Chief Justice William Rehnquist, and has been described as having a conservative
judicial philosophy in his jurisprudence.