Word: connor
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Fienning worked for a semester in the Dunster House superintendent’s office. House Superintendent H. Joseph O’Connor recalled Fienning’s “very engaging personality...
...Connor said he met Fienning’s parents when the 24-year-old first came to Dunster, and his warm personality was something that “just kind of ran in the family...
...They were very delightful people. I had the good fortune to meet them a few times during Henry’s stay here,” O' Connor said...
...turn right on the issues they care most about. And this was the year their fears finally began to be vindicated. As the first full term with both Justices John Roberts and Samuel Alito came to a close, it became increasingly clear that in the post--Sandra Day O'Connor era, the center of the court has shifted several degrees to the right. Both Alito and Anthony Kennedy, who has emerged as the new swing Justice, are more conservative than O'Connor was on some key issues that came before the Justices this term. As a result, the court tacked...
Think about the issues in which the center of the court, defined by Kennedy, is now more conservative than it was with O'Connor. The federal ban on partial-birth abortion? Polls consistently show overwhelming support for it. Affirmative action? After the Supreme Court upheld the University of Michigan Law School's affirmative-action plan in 2003, Michigan voters repudiated it in a referendum. "Any court on which Justice Kennedy is the median voter will never do anything to provoke dramatic backlashes," says Michael Klarman of the University of Virginia School of Law, "because Justice Kennedy has his finger...