The Nation - News from Feb. 6, 1989

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy called upon the nation’s lawyers to stand up for “the rule of law” against forces that he said threaten to corrode American society. “It’s important that the lawyers of this country understand the corrosive effect when the law is disobeyed,” Kennedy said in a speech to the American Bar Assn. in Denver. Kennedy, making his first speech to the ABA since taking his seat on the high court a year ago, did not offer specific examples of a breakdown in law and order. But he said he is concerned by those who use poverty as a justification for law-breaking.