Though the panel at the Dole Institute Tuesday night may have been named a discussion of the Roberts Supreme Court, at least one panelist suggested that this court should more rightfully be known as the Kennedy court. The Journal-World’s Sophia Maines has a complete story here.It’s called the Roberts court because it is led by Chief Justice John Roberts, who was sworn in last year. Roberts will become the first sitting chief justice to speak at Kansas University when he delivers the Vickers lecture April 30.But Burdett Loomis, professor of political science, said that the court should actually be named after Anthony Kennedy, the somewhat conservative swing jurist who was in the majority on all but two of the cases the court decided last year. He was in the majority of all 25 cases that were decided by a 5-4 vote.In a way, the panelists argued, Kennedy has assumed an even more prominent role than that of former justice Sandra Day O’Connor, who retired last year. O’Connor was often considered to be the deciding jurist in most cases. Now Kennedy has that role, but perhaps even more prominently as the court has shifted further to the right than ever before, the panelists said.