Word: connorism
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...have a candidate in mind that I would love to see, and that's Sandra Day O'Connor. I think she would be the perfect choice, a very healing choice for the country. I think those others would be very polarizing and not good for the country...
...hell of a lot better since he's had to articulate his views in dissent." In those opinions he generally answers the majority point by point and lays out a narrow interpretation of the ruling, which can be helpful to those who later challenge it. Justice Sandra Day O'Connor caught him at it in a case earlier this year and wrote with annoyance in a foot note, "Justice Brennan not only distorts the reasoning and holding of our decision but, worse, invites trial courts and prosecutors to do the same...
...movement was Roe's establishment of the trimester theory of pregnancy, which holds that a government's legitimate interest in the life of the fetus grows as the fetus moves toward viability outside the womb. In her blunt dissent to one of the 1983 decisions, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor wrote that the trimester theory was arbitrary. Said she: "I believe that the state's interest in protecting potential human life exists throughout pregnancy." Right-to-life advocates now say that new medical technology makes the fetus viable at earlier and earlier stages...
...department asks him to, Mitchell says that he would very much like to return, a sentiment that Connor is guardedly optimistic about...
...position is...allocated to the department to compensate for the loss of the course that might ordinarily be taught by the HFA Curator,” Connor writes in an e-mail. “Since that search is ongoing, I cannot comment on the department’s future plans. I would be delighted to have him back...