subpoenaed to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) in October 1947. Later, NLG members Martin Popper of Washington and constitutional Sam Rosenwein of New York supported the team. Only ten people wound up testifying, all cited for contempt of Congress, and so became the Hollywood Ten. Later life In 1948, Kenny and Robert S. Morris formed a new law partnership. In the 1940s and 1950s, they represented "many people under indictment for questionable activities." Clients included Luisa Moreno Bemis, Guatemalan labor activist, many "unfriendly" witnesses (including the Hollywood Ten) before HUAC in Los Angeles in 1952, as well as musicians before HUAC in 1956. Kenny was a member of the American Committee for the Protection of Foreign Born. Partner Robert S. Morris was a member of the Immigration and Deportation Committee in the Los Angeles chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). In 1950, Kenny ran for California state senator against Glenn Anderson and Jack Tenney for the Democratic nomination; Tenney won. The same year, he ran for Los Angeles mayor; Fletcher Bowron won in a recall. In 1957, he was one of the lawyers who helped 23 Hollywood screenwriters and actors win a Supreme Court review of their challenge of the Hollywood blacklist. In 1960, Kenny was treasurer of the National Committee to Abolish the House Un-American Activities Committee (NCA-HUAC). In 1962, Kenny served as counsel of Albert J. Lewis and Steve Roberts of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee before HUAC. In 1963, the Congressional Record re-recorded information from October 26, 1955, that "public records, files, and publications of this committee" (HUAC) showed Kenny "not necessarily a Communist, a Communist sympathizer, or a fellow traveller" but noted nevertheless that he was affiliated with the American Youth for Democracy, Civil Rights Congress, Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee, and California Labor School. In 1966, California Governor Edmund G. Brown appointed Kenny again a state judge. In 1975, he retired from the bench. Personal life and death In 1922, Kenny married Sara McCann; she died in 1966. In the 1930s, Kenny was a "liberal Republican." Robert Walter Kenny died age 74 on July 20, 1976, at Scripps Memorial Hospital in La Jolla, California with no survivors. Legacy In 2012, the National Lawyers Guild remembered Kenny as follows: That the Guild survived the splits in the late '30s and repression of the '50s is primarily a testament to the loyalty,