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Supreme Court Justices seldom allow themselves to get caught in the rough-and- tumble of local politics. So eyebrows rose when a letter written by Justice Sandra Day O'Connor was used by archconservative Arizona Republicans to formulate a resolution proclaiming that the U.S. is a "Christian nation...
...Connor, once active in the Arizona G.O.P., wrote the letter last year to Apache Junction Republican Annetta Conant. At Conant's request, the Justice cited three court opinions that, according to O'Connor, were "to the effect that this is a Christian nation...
After adoption of the resolution at the annual state party convention, along - with measures opposing water fluoridation and the grand-jury system, Conant revealed O'Connor's correspondence. Conservative Barry Goldwater criticized the resolutions, declaring that he was "upset and disgusted" to realize that the state G.O.P. had been taken over by a "bunch of kooks...
Legal scholars pointed out that two of the opinions O'Connor cited actually do not promote the concept of a Christian nation. The embarrassed Justice said she regretted that her letter had been "used in a political debate." It was a weak excuse. Conant had stated that a letter from O'Connor would be "beneficial" since "Republicans are making some interesting advances in this heavily controlled Democratic area...
Recently, O'Connor and freshman crew Caitlin Murray clinched second in their division at an intersectional regatta in Charleston...