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☆ The inside story of how Sandra Day O’Connor rebuffed pressure from Scalia and others to overturn Roe v. Wade
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-13 | by ( Joan Biskupic | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +19 min

Handwritten notes from Justice Sandra Day O'Connor's papers on a major abortion case in 1989. The correspondence and notes foreshadow where O’Connor landed in the 1992 Planned Parenthood v. Casey case, when Justice Anthony Kennedy, hostile to Roe v. Wade in 1989, was ready to join O’Connor in upholding Roe. Accelerating the tensions all around was the time pressure of the Missouri case. O’Connor wrote that Kennedy said, “Roe is just flawed analytically” and that he wanted to “return this debate to democratic process” in the states. Library of CongressDraft opinion language from Justice John Paul Stevens he sent to Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.

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☆ Sandra O’Connor’s Extraordinary Final Chapter
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-01 | by ( Kate Zernike | More About Kate Zernike | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Sandra Day O’Connor gave up lifetime tenure on the Supreme Court — a job she loved and one with extraordinary power — to care for her husband of 52 years as he deteriorated from dementia. That decision, in 2005, began a poignant final chapter of her extraordinary life. Justice O’Connor, who died on Friday at the age of 93, had hoped to care for her husband at their home in Arizona. He was unhappy about the move, but then something remarkable happened: He found romance with another woman who lived there. The justice kept up her regular visits, beaming next to the happy couple as they held hands on a porch swing.

Persons: Sandra Day O’Connor, Justice O’Connor, O’Connor, ”, Scott Locations: Arizona

☆ What Sandra Day O’Connor Stood For on the Supreme Court - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2021-09-23 | by ( Linda Greenhouse | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

This was published in 2021 to mark the 40th anniversary of Sandra Day O’Connor taking a seat on the Supreme Court. Forty years ago this Saturday, on Sept. 25, 1981, Sandra Day O’Connor took her seat on the Supreme Court. Most people in the United States today were not yet born on that early fall afternoon when Sandra O’Connor took the oath of office and ended 191 years of an all-male Supreme Court. The history of her appointment is not the only reason to think today about Sandra O’Connor, who retired 15 years ago and is now, at 91, living with dementia. At a time when the Supreme Court’s behavior seems to embody and even to amplify the country’s polarization, it’s worth reflecting on the path she took during her quarter-century on the court.

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