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Hallelujah! A campaign promise that was actually fulfilled-and brilliantly [July 20]. Sandra O'Connor's expertise, sharp intellect and experience qualify her for a seat on the Supreme Court regardless...
Women lawyers and judges greeted the O'Connor nomination last week with a mixture of enthusiasm and skepticism. "If she is superior, she will help the next generation of women," says Banks, "but she will be judged more harshly than men." As Hufstedler sees it, having a woman on the highest court has "significant symbolic importance." But she too is wary: "There can be such a thing as a token woman on the Supreme Court to avoid addressing women's issues." For most observers, the real test is whether Ronald Reagan is about to depart from his early...
...extraordinary way, this deeper awareness and understanding of the court have been focused in Reagan's time to produce the nomination of O'Connor. She seems to be a person in harmony with the White House. But she also gains credence as a potential Justice by her distance from the White House that proposed...
When the antiabortion shouting is finally muffled, as it will be, the nomination of Sandra O'Connor to the Supreme Court will emerge as the balanced and responsible presidential action it was intended to be. Dozens of Ronald Reagan's aides, acting more like clinical psychologists than bureaucrats, probed her shadings of emotion, her intellect, her theology. O'Connor's background and that of her family were searched by computer. She was, to a remarkable degree, judged by a man who sees more and more each day that he must be President to a nation...
...might expect that Reagan's first nominee to the Supreme Court would have had a certain intimacy with the White House or some special link to the Oval Office. But that is not the case. O'Connor is as independent and self-contained as any court nominee of the past two decades. She may reflect the White House philosophy, but she is not beholden to it, not bound to any mission or personal power adventure. Her nomination may be certification of a fact that has been dawning: the court is truly a citadel on the Hill-a part...