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HavenWorks ~~~~~~~~~~~~ Former United States Supreme Court Associate Justice Sandra Day O'Connor News PBS NewsHour Profile of O'Connor "The first woman ever appointed to the Supreme Court, Sandra Day O'Connor grew up intending to go into her family's business of cattle ranching. Born in Texas in 1930, O'Connor spent her early years on her family's ranch in Arizona before moving to El Paso to live with her grandmother and attend school. She proceeded to Stanford in 1950 to study economics, and later law. O'Connor finished law school in two years instead of the usual three and graduated third in her class." ... "When O'Connor graduated from law school, she did not find a welcoming job market and was only offered a position as a legal secretary. She turned instead to public service and took a job in 1952 as deputy attorney general for San Mateo County in California. O'Connor's husband, also a lawyer, was drafted into the Judge Advocate General's Court in 1953 and the couple moved to Frankfurt, Germany where O'Connor served as a civilian attorney for the Quartermaster Market Center from 1954 to 1957." -By Maureen Hoch -PBS NewsHour

Sandra Day O'Connor SANDRA DAY O'CONNOR News: 20060615 Noteworthy - Government - Police - Civil Righs - Politics - Samuel Alito - Sandra Day O'Connor - Homes - "Police don't have to knock, justices say: Alito's vote breaks 4-4 tie in police search case." ... "The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that police armed with a warrant can barge into homes and seize evidence even if they don't knock, a huge government victory that was decided by President Bush's new justices." ... "The 5-4 ruling clearly signals the court's conservative shift following the departure of moderate Sandra Day O'Connor." ... "The case tested previous court rulings that police armed with warrants generally must knock and announce themselves or they run afoul of the Constitution's Fourth Amendment ban on unreasonable searches." -AP via -CNN 20060310  Listen - Government - Law - Politics - Sandra Day O'Connor - "O'Connor Decries Republican Attacks on Courts." ... "Newly retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor took on conservative Republican critics of the courts in a speech Thursday. She told an audience at Georgetown University that Republican proposals, and their sometimes uncivil tone, pose a danger to the independence of the judiciary, and the freedoms of all Americans." -By Nina Totenberg-NPR /News  Transcript: "Retired Supreme Court Justice hits attacks on courts and warns of dictatorship." [as relayed by Nina Totenberg of NPR News, partial transcript follows:] ... "Nina Totenberg: In an unusually forceful and forthright speech, O’Connor said that attacks on the judiciary by some Republican leaders pose a direct threat to our constitutional freedoms." ... "[Nina Totenberg:] I, said O’Connor, am against judicial reforms driven by nakedly partisan reasoning. Pointing to the experiences of developing countries and former communist countries where interference with an independent judiciary has allowed dictatorship to flourish, O’Connor said we must be ever-vigilant against those who would strongarm the judiciary into adopting their preferred policies. It takes a lot of degeneration before a country falls into dictatorship, she said, but we should avoid these ends by avoiding these beginnings." via Raw Story 20060221 Women - Abortion - Health - Politics - Sandra Day O'Connor - Samuel Alito - John Roberts - "Supreme Court to look at federal ban on late-term abortion." ... "It's not new territory for the court, which in 2000 split 5-4 when it struck down a similar state ban because it lacked a health exception for women." ... "But Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, who voted with the majority in that case, has been replaced by Justice Samuel Alito, whose views on abortion are widely expected to be more restrictive." ... "The case could be the first in which Alito, with other court conservatives including new Chief Justice John G. Roberts, helps chart a more restrictive trajectory for the court's handling of abortion laws." -By Stephen Henderson -KnightRidder via -RealCities 20050915 John Roberts - Sandra Day O'Connor - GOV - Politics - Secrets - "For Roberts, path to high court splits candor, caution: Democratic senators have struggled to glean Chief Justice nominee John Roberts's personal views." ... "As one of the most respected advocates practicing before the US Supreme Court, John Roberts held that a good lawyer should be able to argue either side of a case." ... "Now he's using a variation of that same strategy and all the skills he honed under intense High Court questioning to try to win Senate confirmation as the 17th chief justice of the United States." ... "His plan: reveal just enough information about his approach to judging to convince the senators of his integrity and constitutional expertise - but not enough to permit someone to forecast how he might vote once on the high court." ... "Roberts isn't just fighting for himself. If he is successful in holding that line he will help set the stage for the president's next high court nominee - the pick that will replace centrist Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and potentially swing the court to the right." -By Warren Richey -CSMonitor  20050811 John G. Roberts Jr. - Sandra Day O'Connor - Archives - PA -  -  - "In '81, Roberts Offered Counsel to O'Connor: As Aide to Attorney General, He Urged Nominee to Be Reserved in Sharing Legal Views." ... "Supreme Court nominee John G. Roberts Jr. once urged a previous nominee, Sandra Day O'Connor, not to tell members of Congress how she might vote in cases likely to come before the court." ... "It is one of several hundred [documents] disclosed late yesterday on the National Archives and Records Administration Web site that reflect his outlook regarding what a justice should say or do." ... "The documents released yesterday were the third collection disclosed by the archives in response to Freedom of Information Act requests seeking any documents written, approved, initialed or signed by Roberts during his tenure at the Justice Department in two jobs eight years apart." ... "Yesterday, Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.), who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee, prodded the White House to release other documents -- related to Roberts's tenure as associate White House legal counsel from 1982 to 1986 -- "without delay." Administration officials have said they are still reviewing the documents partly to assess whether they contain material that will prove to be controversial." -By Jo Becker and R. Jeffrey Smith with contributions by Amy Goldstein-WashingtonPost

Sandra Day O'Connor Websites  SupremeCourtUS.gov Sandra Day O'Connor Biography Biographies via: FindLaw GaleGroup.com Sandra Day O'Connor ... "Sandra Day O'Connor was born on March 26, 1930, in El Paso, Texas, to Harry A. and Ada Mae Wilkey Day. The family owned a 155,000-acre ranch in southeastern Arizona, which her grandfather Henry Clay Day established in the 1880's, when Arizona was still a territory."... "O'Connor was the right woman at the right moment. To offset criticism of his opposition to the Equal Rights Amendment in 1980, Reagan promised to appoint the first woman to the Supreme Court. Justice Potter Stewart gave him the opportunity when he retired in June, 1981. Reagan chose O'Connor, probably because of her conservative credentials, her strict constructionist views of the Constitution, and her ability to elicit widespread support. The nomination was hailed by senators as ideologically diverse as Barry Goldwater and Edward Kennedy." -GaleGroup.com

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20050705
• -  -  - Abortion - "Future of abortion uncertain: With Supreme Court vacancy, activists on both sides mobilize." ... "With the future of abortion law hanging on the next few Supreme Court appointments, the resignation of Justice Sandra Day O'Connor has pushed activists on both sides of the national divide into high gear." ... ""Abortion rights and women's rights are on the line," said a mass fundraising e-mail sent out by the Feminist Majority over the weekend, while the liberal lobby MoveOn.org said it aimed to deliver 250,000 signatures by Tuesday on an emergency petition asking U.S. senators to help preserve the right to terminate a pregnancy." ... "At the same time, the Family Research Council, a conservative Christian group, said it would mobilize 20,000 churches across the country in an attempt to change the direction of the court. Another conservative group called Progress for America launched an $18 million advertising campaign in support of new justices who would overturn rulings it opposes. Chief among those is Roe vs. Wade, the 1973 decision that established a constitutional right to abortion." (1, 2) -By Judy Peres -ChicagoTribune

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20050701
• -  -  - Sandra Day O'Connor - Executions - "O'Connor had immense power as swing vote: Over 24 years, justice shifted her views on abortion and death penalty." ... "Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, who announced her retirement Friday, was guaranteed a place in the history books when she became the first woman to serve on the Supreme Court." ... "But in her 24 years on the court she became far more significant than simply the first female justice. She was often the swing vote that decided high-profile cases." ... "Never as consistently conservative as those on the right would have liked, but sometimes providing the decisive fifth vote in cases dear to the hearts of conservatives, such as her vote in 2002 to approve Ohio's school voucher plan, O'Connor, 75, has wielded immense power in her years on the court." ... "Far from doctrinaire, in many cases O'Connor felt her way toward a compromise position on an ideologically fractured court." (1, 2) -By Tom Curry -MSNBC 

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• -  -  - Sandra Day O'Connor - "Justice Sandra Day O'Connor stepping down." ... "Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, the first woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court, announced her retirement this morning after 24 years on the high court, setting the stage for what promises to be a bruising fight to confirm her successor." ... "O'Connor forged a reputation as a moderate conservative seen as a critical swing vote on a host of hot-button issues, from abortion to affirmative action, and her departure is sure to ignite a passionate ideological battle over her successor." ... "Her retirement creates the first vacancy on the court in 11 years, ending the longest period without a change on the bench in nearly 200 years." -By Chuck Squatriglia -SFGate.com 

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• -  - Sandra Day O'Connor - "Sandra Day O'Connor announces retirement: Conservatives hope to use opportunity to shift Supreme Court further to the right." ... "The retirement of Sandra Day O'Connor, the nation's first woman Supreme Court justice, presents President Bush and his social conservative supporters with the best opportunity in 14 years to significantly shift the court further to the right." ... "But with recent efforts by White House officials to float the possible nomination of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales it remains unclear whether Bush will view the opening on the high court as an opportunity to reward social conservatives for their votes in 2004 or to reach out to Hispanic voters in 2006 and 2008 by appointing a Hispanic to replace her." -By Warren Richey with contributions by Linda Feldmann -CSMonitor 

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• -  - Sandra Day O'Connor - "U.S. Supreme Court Justice O'Connor retires." ... "Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, the first woman on the U.S. Supreme Court and a moderate conservative who often controlled the outcome on abortion and other issues, announced her retirement on Friday, setting the stage for a major political battle over her successor." ... "On the court, O'Connor and another moderate conservative, Justice Anthony Kennedy, have often controlled the outcome. Rehnquist and Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas are the court's most conservative members." ... "The court's more liberal members are Justices John Paul Stevens, David Souter, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer, the last justice to join the court in 1994." -By James Vicini -Reuters.co.uk

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Speaker Page: Sandra Day O'Connor -- Resourceful Women: A Library of Congress Symposium. June 19-20, 2003

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