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Article: Sandra's Day: Why the Rehnquist Court has been the O'Connor Court, and how to replace her (should it come to that).(William Rehnquist; Sandra Day O'Connor; Supreme Court)
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- National Review
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- June 30, 2003
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Conservatives have never much cared for Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. They viewed her nomination to the Supreme Court as the result of Ronald Reagan's ill-advised, because gratuitous, 1980 campaign pledge to appoint the first female justice. During her confirmation hearings in 1981, some conservatives argued that her record as a state legislator in Arizona made it unlikely that she would vote against Roe v. Wade. Her subsequent votes confirmed that suspicion: She reaffirmed Roe in Planned Parenthood v. Casey (1992) and even divined a kind of constitutional right to partial-birth abortion in Stenberg v. Carhart (2000). Conservative activists tend to regard her as a ...
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