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Pornography. Charges that O'Connor is soft on pornography are soft indeed...
Principally, they stem from what New Rightists call her "drastic amending" of a bill that would have banned adult bookstores within a one-mile radius of schools and parks. O'Connor altered the restriction to 4,000 feet, but she clearly had no desire to corrupt youth. One possible motive: getting state law to conform with federal statutes, thus reducing the possibility of court challenges...
Nothing dramatizes the changes that have taken place in the past 108 years more than the nomination of Sandra O'Connor to the bench where Bradley once sat. Today some 50,000 women are going beyond their "paramount mission and destiny" by pursuing careers as lawyers. They represent about 10% of the profession, and the proportion is growing: one out of three students now graduating from law school is a woman. Female attorneys are no longer considered "a bizarre thing," as Shirley Hufstedler, Secretary of Education under Jimmy Carter, recalls they Eleanor Holmes Norton were when...
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...
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...