During a crucial period in American law — when abortion, affirmative action, sex discrimination and voting rights were on the docket — she was the most powerful woman in the country.
Meh. She was a woman at a time when it was very difficult to be a woman in law, and experienced much prejudice in her early career. And yet her experience only made her fight for women’s rights, it never seemed to extend to any other disadvantaged groups such as minorities or gays. People liked that sometimes bother me more than those that are just full blown right wing, because they should personally know better. Doesn’t seem very diffcult to extrapolate that other groups that are not exactly your very own likeness might also need protections. I won’t miss her. Buh-bye, Sandy! Go join Reagan and John Wayne in that big bigoted ranch in the sky.
Day O'Conner may not have been the SC Justice for everyone, but being confirmed and seated as a SC Justice was huge big. I didn't alway agree with her decisions
Let’s be clear. She was a lawyer who became a politician and then became a judge. She was smart Enough to become a lawyer but not great legal mind! She was a politician in a robe!! She was ahead of her time in that way: she was a moderate conservative republican who was always a politician.
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