Word: connors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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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...
Whether Sandra O'Connor is, or is not, an advocate of the ERA is a moot point. Her nomination to the Supreme Court verifies that the ERA is unnecessary...
Only in the future can we know if Sandra O'Connor becomes an outstanding or mediocre Justice. But certainly others who prefer a different candidate should be able to express their preference without being savaged and ridiculed in the media or by a U.S. Senator...
...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...
...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...