But perhaps O'Connor wasn't such a bad appointment. Considering the house and Senate being owned by the Democrats. How could Reagan have done any better, or any worse for that matter? Do you really think Reagan could have gotten a conservative through that gauntlet?
We ran the Senate in 1981.
She wasn't. In fact, she was on the right side of alot of crucial 5-4 decisions in her time on the USSC.