You have a real defeatist air about you.
But when I asked if she thought it necessary for the general public to own assault weapons, she responded unequivocally: "I do not see the need for a resident of the United States to have an assault weapon."
Cases Involving Race
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In late 2008, O'Connor said she believed racial affirmative action should continue to help heal the inequalities created by racial discrimination.
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Abortion
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O'Connor allowed certain limits to be placed on access to abortion, but supported the fundamental right to abortion protected by the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. In Planned Parenthood v. Casey, O'Connor used a test she had originally developed in City of Akron v. Akron Center for Reproductive Health to limit the holding of Roe v. Wade, opening up a legislative portal where a State could enact measures so long as they did not place an "undue burden" on a woman's right to an abortion. Casey revised downward the standard of scrutiny federal courts would apply to state abortion restrictions, a major departure from Roe. However it preserved Roe's core constitutional precept: that the Fourteenth Amendment implies and protects a fundamental right to control the outcomes of one's reproductive actions. Writing the plurality opinion for the Court, O'Connor, along with Justices Kennedy and Souter, famously declared: “At the heart of liberty is the right to define one’s own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of human life. Beliefs about these matters could not define the attributes of personhood were they formed under compulsion of the State.”[66]
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Foreign Law
O'Connor was a vigorous defender of the citing of foreign laws in judicial decisions.[67]