Kentucky Supreme Court

The second floor of the capitol building is also home to offices for the justices and Supreme Court personnel.The role of the AOC is similar to that of the Legislative Research Commission (LRC) for the Kentucky General Assembly.This Kentucky decision, based on the Kentucky Constitution, was made at a time when the applicable federal equal protection precedent was Bowers v. Hardwick, 478 U.S. 186 (1986), which held that federal constitutional protection of the right of privacy was not implicated in laws penalizing homosexual sodomy.In 2003, the United States Supreme Court reversed itself and overturned Bowers, issuing a decision in Lawrence v. Texas, 539 U.S. 558 (2003) that mirrored Kentucky's Wasson ruling.In case of a vacancy the governor makes an appointment from a list of three names provided by the Kentucky Judicial Nominating Commission.
Current districts of the Supreme Court
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