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.
Persons:
Sandra O’Connor, eviscerate Roe, Wade, O’Connor, Roe, Antonin Scalia, William Rehnquist, Rehnquist, — Webster, Reproductive Health Services —, ” Rehnquist, Sandra Day, George H.W, Reagan, bristled, ”, Scalia, John Paul Stevens, Gerald Ford, Casey, Anthony Kennedy, Dobbs, Samuel Alito, Webster, Kennedy, “ Nino, ” Scalia, ” O’Connor, “ Roe, O’Connor’s, Roe “, Byron White, “, Byron, Sandra, Nino, Tony …, White, Sandra Day O'Connor, Congress O’Connor, bemoaning, overruling Roe, ” Stevens, reexamine Roe, reconsidering Roe, Stevens, Stevens ’, inched, John . ”, ’, William Brennan, David Souter, Bush
Organizations:
CNN, Reproductive Health Services, Congress, Library, O’Connor, Stanford Law School, Roe, Chicago, Stevens, Kennedy
Locations:
Missouri, Roe, Bush, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Phoenix, Minnesota