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Justice Sandra Day O’Connor’s legacy includes two impactful dissents in 2005

Her position in Kelo v. New London was partly vindicated when some states enacted laws aimed at discouraging eminent domain abuse, Jacob Sullum writes.

Chicago Sun-Times

Sandra Day O’Connor's experience as a legislator guided her consensus-building work on the Supreme Court

When Sandra Day O’Connor stepped down from the U.S. Supreme Court in 2006, she was the last justice to have served as an elected legislator. She previously was a member of the Arizona state Senate and later its majority leader.

The Conversation

Sandra Day O'Connor wasn't that great

The first woman on the Supreme Court gave the appearance of positive change — but she was a tool of the instutition

Salon

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Justice O'Connor's Parting Dissents Highlighted the Twin Perils of Local Tyranny and Federal Overreach

The late Supreme Court justice eloquently defended property rights and state autonomy.

Reason

Justice Sandra Day O'Connor will lie in repose at the Supreme Court on Dec. 18

The Supreme Court says retired Justice Sandra Day O’Connor will lie in repose at the court on Dec. 18

The Independent UK

Justice Sandra Day O'Connor paved a path for women on the Supreme Court

One fall day in 2010, retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor slipped into the courtroom where she worked for nearly 25 years to take in an “amazing” sight — three women in black robes

The Independent UK

Sandra Day O'Connor, RIP

She was the first woman Supreme Court justice, and played a key role in changing the Court's jurisprudence for the better on several issues.

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Sandra Day O'Connor dies at 93

Former justice said in 2018 she was diagnosed with the beginning stages of dementia and withdrew from public life

Salon

Sandra Day O'Connor, the First Woman to Ever Serve the Supreme Court, Has Died

Justice O’Connor played a pivotal role when issues like abortion, affirmative action, gender discrimination, and voting rights took center stage in American politics.

Marie Claire

Sandra Day O’Connor, born in El Paso, remains point of civic pride

O’Connor, the first female U.S. Supreme Court justice, died Friday. She is more commonly known as an Arizonan, but she graduated high school in Texas and multiple schools here now bear her name.

The Texas Tribune

Sandra Day O’Connor obituary

First female justice of the US supreme court who cast the deciding vote in many of its most controversial cases

The Guardian - UK

Sandra Day O’Connor, first woman to sit on US Supreme Court, dies at 93

The former justice served from 1981 until 2006, during a time of transition for the nation’s highest court.

Al Jazeera

Former Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, first woman on the Supreme Court, dies at 93 - Roll Call

Former Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, the first woman to serve on the Supreme Court, died Friday at age 93, according to a statement from the Supreme Court. O’Connor, appointed by President Ronald Reagan in 1981, served more than two decades on the court before retiring in 2006. The announcement from…

Roll Call

Retired Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, the first woman on the Supreme Court, has died at age 93

Sandra Day O’Connor, the first woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court, has died

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Sandra Day O’Connor, first female Supreme Court justice, dies at 93

O’Connor became the first woman to be appointed the Supreme Court in 1981, paving the way for future female justices

Chicago Sun-Times

Retired Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, the first woman on the Supreme Court, has died at age 93

The court says she died in Phoenix on Friday, of complications related to advanced dementia and a respiratory illness.

International Business Times

Former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor Dies At 93

O'Connor, 93, died Friday following a years-long battle with dementia that saw her step back from public life in 2018.

International Business Times

Longtime US Justice Sandra Day O'Connor: The Power Of Moderation

Sandra Day O'Connor, the first woman to serve as a justice on the US Supreme Court, wielded enormous influence as the key centrist on a sharply divided bench, where she often displayed a preference for pragmatism over ideology.

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Sandra Day O'Connor, first woman on the Supreme Court, dies

Sandra Day O'Connor was called "the most powerful woman in America" during her quarter of a century as a Supreme Court justice.

The Guardian - US

‘You want to think America is better’: can the supreme court be saved?

Documentarian Dawn Porter’s expansive new series Deadlocked looks back at the history of an institution that has shaped the US for better and, more recently, worse

Reason

How Affirmative Action Lost at the Supreme Court

Preferential college admissions violated the 14th Amendment's Equal Protection Clause.

WEKU

How the Supreme Court's conservative majority came to be

The 6-3 majority was solidified in former President Donald Trump's term, but its roots go back to the Bushes and the political circumstances of 1991 and 2005.

The Conversation

Affirmative action lasted over 50 years: 3 essential reads explaining how it ended

Ever since U.S. President Lyndon Johnson enacted affirmative action in 1965, white conservatives have challenged the use of race in college admissions.

WEKU

How the Supreme Court's conservative majority came to be

The 6-3 majority was solidified in former President Donald Trump's term, but its roots go back to the Bushes and the political circumstances of 1991 and 2005.

Tribune News Service

Martin Schram: Re-affirmative Action – now more than ever

On Wednesday in the nation’s capital, officials at all levels were busily working on official papers that would have a lot to do with Jaylin Osborne’s hopes and dreams for a bright future in college and beyond.

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