Former Justice Anthony Kennedy loves to show guests around his art-filled chambers, but beneath that gentlemanly charm is the steel that once made him a force on the Supreme Court. He showed a visitor a statue of the Pony Express: "And when Ronald Reagan was Governor, and he saw it and loved it, I said, 'You're not Queen Mary. I don't have to give it to you!'"

Kennedy, now 89 years old, no longer hears Supreme Court cases. He formally stepped down seven years ago during the first Trump administration. "I loved sitting on the bench," he said.

Asked whether he would want to be there today, he replied, "The only reason I left – I love the Court – but I left for something that I love more, which is my wife, Mary."

Former Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy. CBS News

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