Word: connors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...five-minute buzzer sounded summoning Senators to cast their votes, Sandra Day O'Connor, 51, wrung her hands nervously and awaited her fate in an anteroom near the Senate floor. "This is the longest five minutes of my life," she said with an anxious smile. Yet her fate was never in doubt. By a vote of 99 to 0,* the Senate made Judge O'Connor Justice O'Connor, the Supreme Court's first female member in its 191 years. Even Republican Jeremiah Denton of Alabama, the only member of the Judiciary Committee who refused to recommend...
When the tally was in, O'Connor received a congratulatory hug from fellow Arizonan Barry Goldwater and descended the Capitol steps. Accompanied by Goldwater, Vice President George Bush and other supporters, she gazed at the imposing marble facade of the Supreme Court across the way and said earnestly: "My hope is that ten years from now, after I've been across the street and worked for a while, they'll feel glad that they gave me this wonderful vote...
...week there were celebrations, formal and informal, public and private, to mark O'Connor's triumph. Senator Strom Thurmond of South Carolina, who guided the confirmation vote from his position as chairman of the Judiciary Committee, gave a candlelit dinner in her honor at a Pakistani restaurant. In marked contrast to the spicy food in front of them, Nancy Thurmond, the Senator's wife, offered a dulcet toast to O'Connor as "the best thing to come down the pike since Girl Scout cookies." On Thursday, at a ceremony in the Rose Garden honoring federal district...
While the Reagan Administration has been winning praise and headlines for nominating Sandra Day O'Connor to be the first female Supreme Court Justice, almost all the federal judges the department has been recruiting are white and male. Of the 47 judges selected so far, only one is black and two are women. Jimmy Carter, by contrast, chose 41 women and 37 blacks among his 281 federal judges. While policies change from President to President, federal judges serve for life, and helping send a large corps of judicial conservatives to the bench may end up as Smith...
...been happy about the modern judiciary's penchant for the sort of activism that has prompted some federal judges, like Frank Johnson of Alabama, to take over the administration of prisons or busing programs as a way of guaranteeing constitutional rights. For this reason Sandra Day O'Connor doubtless pleased the New Right when, on the eve of her confirmation as the first woman on the Supreme Court, she declared that "the proper role of the judiciary is one of interpreting and applying the law, not making it." The legal theory underlying the New Right campaign is primitive...