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...Attorney Kevin J. O’Connor said he was pleased with the outcome of the sentencing. “We believe that the court balanced the severity of this crime with this defendant’s significant cooperation in recovering most of the maps that he stole and imposed a fair sentence,” O’Connor said in a statement...
...need to retire from retirement," jokes SANDRA DAY O'CONNOR, 76, who quit the U.S. Supreme Court in January to spend more time with her husband John, who has Alzheimer's. Her inclination to say yes to invitations means "he wonders if he's still married," she says. She has given speeches around the world. She keeps an office at the court and lunches occasionally with her ex-colleagues. Exercising her prerogative as a senior jurist, she will sit briefly on the Second and Ninth Circuit Courts of Appeal next month. She'll also co-chair a conference at Georgetown...
...republic, to the disappointment of a few hawkish commentators and the relief of everyone else. Elections happened as usual. When torture was used against suspected terrorists, for example, the press howled. When suspects were detained without charge, the courts intervened. As Supreme Court Associate Justice Sandra Day O'Connor put it, "A state of war isn't a blank check for the President when it comes to the rights of the nation's citizens." To many Americans, indeed, the whole point of the war was to preserve their country's democratic institutions. And unlike its fighting partners in World...
...Sandra Day O'Connor The retired Supreme Court justice talks to TIME about her work to stop attacks on the judiciary, her lunches with her former colleagues on the bench and her overbooked schedule...
...Sandra Day O'Connor The retired Supreme Court justice talks to TIME about her work to stop attacks on the judiciary, her lunches with her former colleagues on the bench and her overbooked schedule...