Posted on 12/01/2023 8:52:58 AM PST by Morgana
Retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor has died in Phoenix, Arizona at the age of 93.
The first woman to serve on the highest court in the United States passed away from 'complications due to advanced dementia,' the court said.
O'Connor was nominated by President Ronald Reagan in 1981, confirmed unanimously in the Senate and served from 1981 to January 2006, retiring to take care of her husband who had Alzheimer's.
The former lawyer was a moderate conservative and considered a swing vote under Former Chief Justice William Rehnquist.
She frequently sided with her conservative colleagues on the court - like she did in Bush v. Gore, handing the 2000 presidential election to Republican President George W. Bush before a recount was concluded - but she also sometimes sided with liberals.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Rest In Peace, Sandra.
yep all I had to say about Kissinger was RIP and it’s the same for her
I thought she had previously died.
“The former lawyer was a moderate conservative...”
What? They are not shrieking she was a “right wing extremist”?
She was picked for her sex. She ruled based on emotions and politics and what she thought was the right thing and saw the constitution as “a work in progress”. She was a living constitution type.
She was a libtard, and the beginning of the permanent female seat on the court. She supported abortion. She heavily supported citing foreign law in cases. She said a prayer before a high school football game was illegal.
She cited EU law in a death penalty case when arguing the mentally ill can’t be executed. So instantly, everyone on death row is “mentally ill”.
“The impressions we create in this world are important and can leave their mark ... [T]here is talk today about the “internationalization of legal relations”. We are already seeing this in American courts, and should see it increasingly in the future. This does not mean, of course, that our courts can or should abandon their character as domestic institutions. But conclusions reached by other countries and by the international community, although not formally binding upon our decisions, should at times constitute persuasive authority in American courts – what is sometimes called “transjudicialism””
“O’Connor once quoted the constitution of the Middle Eastern nation of Bahrain, which states that “no authority shall prevail over the judgement of a judge, and under no circumstances may the course of justice be interfered with.” Further, “it is in everyone’s interest to foster the rule-of-law evolution.” O’Connor proposed that such ideas be taught in American law schools, high schools and universities. Critics contend that such thinking is contrary to the U.S. Constitution and establishes a rule of man, rather than law.”
AMF.
Cue the liberal celebration. Even though she saved abortion in Casey.
“Loosen up, Sandy baby”
they will be
I won’t shed any tears over the pro abortion witch. Good riddance.
I was never impressed by her.
She introduced us to the Republican nominated fake SCOTUS centrist game. She would give the conservative vote on irrelevant decisions, but she would always give her vote for important issues like Roe versus wade. When she left the court, Kennedy immediately took her place as a so-called swing vote, and again he followed the same pattern. As soon as Kennedy left, Roberts took that place. Just a bunch of insincere controlled scum bags that were playing games with us.
I’m glad that the flags are already at half staff so we don’t have to see them lowered on her behalf.
I certainly hope she gets the “undue burden” in the afterlife that she was so concerned about in this life.
Agree with everything in this post. She was an affirmative action selection to get a female on the court.
I take particular exception with the references to foreign law. That should be the first check mark against her.
Well. She is gone now.
That quote from the Bahrain constitution certainly shows that she was anti-US Constitution utterly, and preferred autocratic kritocracy.
Memory Eternal!
She was an Arizonan like me! I didn’t always agree with her, however.
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