[gcparent]

Sandra Day O’Connor was an excellent SCOTUS.

[MayflowerMadam]

“Sandra Day O’Connor was an excellent SCOTUS.”

IIRC, she started out that way, and then got squishy. She basically turned in to Roberts toward the end.

She voted against the GOP when they wanted to reverse Roe v. Wade.

She voted to strike down a Pennsylvania law requiring spousal awareness for an abortion.

https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/a-look-back-at-justice-sandra-day-oconnors-court-legacy

“As she entered the second half of her tenure on the Court, journalists began to identify O’Connor as a moderate, and by the last quarter of her judicial career, she was regularly described as a centrist, a moderate centrist, and even, as Lyle Denniston wrote in 1999 for the Baltimore Sun, a ‘MODERATE ESTABLISHMENT PROGRESSIVE’ (emphasis mine). From 1993 to 2005, more than a quarter of all Time and Newsweek articles discussing Justice O’Connor labeled her as a swing voter.”

[Czech_Occidentalist]

Not exactly. She was to the left of where Roberts is now. She was about 50% good, 50% bad. Roberts is about 60 or 65% good.

[rollo tomasi]

"Sandra Day O’Connor was an excellent SCOTUS."



All deciding opinions mind you by O'Connor

Horrible on Right to Life opinions

Planned Parenthood v. Casey (1992)--Stenberg v. Carhart (2000)

Horrible on illegal immigration

Zadvydas v. Davis (2001) and commentary there after

Horrible and woefully convoluted on religious liberty

Lee v. Weisman (1992)-- McCreary County v. ACLU of Kentucky (2005)

Horrible on campaign finance laws that ran rough shot over expression and speech

A slew of them including McConnell v. Federal Election Commission PDF (2003) where she was again, the deciding vote

Horrible and hypocritical on affirmative action

Grutter v. Bollinger (2003)

Horrible on regulatory issues that superseded States rights/10th Amendment

Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation v. EPA (2004) --again the deciding vote (Which evolved over time after Thomas was added to the Court) among other cases where she joined the majority or minority expanding regulatory powers of the Feds

I could go on but this is enough to say she was a huge bust.