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Who wrote the majority opinion in Lawrence v. Texas?
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Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote the majority opinion in Lawrence v. Texas (2003).12
As the senior justice in the majority, John Paul Stevens held the authority to assign the opinion and designated Kennedy to write it. In his opinion, Kennedy affirmed that the Constitution protects the liberty and privacy of consenting adults to engage in intimate sexual conduct, thereby overturning the court's previous ruling in Bowers v. Hardwick.1