Retired Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, the first woman on the Supreme Court, has died at 93
Retired Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, the first woman on the Supreme Court, has died at 93
The Supreme Court says retired Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, died Friday. She was 93. She left the court in 2006.
The court says she died in Phoenix on Friday, of complications related to advanced dementia and a respiratory illness.
In 2018, she announced that she had been diagnosed with “the beginning stages of dementia, probably Alzheimer’s disease.” Her husband, John O’Connor, died of complications of Alzheimer’s in 2009.
O’Connor’s nomination in 1981 by President Ronald Reagan and subsequent confirmation by the Senate ended 191 years of male exclusivity on the high court. A native of Arizona who grew up on her family’s sprawling ranch, O’Connor wasted little time building a reputation as a hard worker who wielded considerable political clout on the nine-member court.
I’ll never forgive her for Bush v. Gore. Literally destroyed the country. If she’d voted for the law, not for her party, there’d have been no Bush Administration, no was on terror, no Trump, no Dobbs. And we’re not done yet; there’s probably a Republican dictatorship in our near future.
The damage she did is incalculable. I’m glad she’s gone.
46I'll never forget Bush v. Gore, but at least she knew how to retire.
The Republican justices of today are going to die on the bench right after they rule that guns have the right to vote.
45She retired to care for her husband, who wound up dying 3 years later. It was no benevolent choice. She also was free to do so as Republican Bush got to pick the replacement, who would up being Alito.
17RBG was a dem, as was Feinstein - they're all the same when it comes to not giving up their positions
Term limits need to be put in place
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Don't expect me to shed a tear.
She brought us Bush v Gore.
22Wow I honestly thought she had passed away long ago.
13This has been a week of learning famous people I had thought were long dead, have in fact been alive...by seeing news articles announcing their deaths.
6Yeah, this was a borderline Mandela effect moment for me. "Is this an old headline? She died years ago."
4I had heard she was still alive when RBG passed and was surprised back then.
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Slightly off topic, but a supreme court joke is the main reason I hated the Barbie movie. At the end, when one of the Kens asks to be on the Supreme Court, and Barbie says not until a woman in the real world gets that level of power. Like motherfucker, if the point your movie is trying to make depends on erasing Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sandra Day O'Connor from history then maybe your message isn't as fucking progressive as you think it is.
EDIT: I'm probably wrong, see comment below. The phrasing could be misinterpreted and I likely gave it the least charitable interpretation. The line isn't divorced from reality but apparently I am.
10one of the Kens asks to be on the Supreme Court, and Barbie says not until a woman in the real world gets that level of power.
I'm afraid your memory is a bit off. A Ken asks for a supreme court seat, President Barbie says "maybe one of the lower circuits", and shortly thereafter the narrator says something like "maybe one day the Kens will enjoy all the rights that women do in the real world". The movie certainly did not erase Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sandra Day O'Connor.
19Just went back and rewatched it and you are absolutely correcct, its not what I remember at all. I saw an early run in the theatres and wonder if they changed it, but its probably just my confirmation bias after watching the whole movie feeling icky at how ham-fisted it was.
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If you want an actually subversive comedy, look up 'Josie and the Pussycats.'
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Ronald Reagan was all for 'affirmative action' when he picked her over hundreds of other, much more qualified candidates.
Ronnie was a RINO.
3On the contrary; blatant hypocrisy is a very genuine Republican trait.
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Her ego resulted in hurting women across the us.
Shame.
Bush v Gore set women back significantly. Downvote me all you want. sDO is a huge part of the reason Dobbs got overturned in the end.
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Ironically what you wanted was her to politicize her position. She was above that.
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She dedicated her life to women and justice and to be on the Court. It's what literally kept her fighting through her illness to begin with.
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Blame Republicans and nobody else for politicizing the courts and being the true source of hurting women everywhere.
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Blame America and the Electoral College for even making it feasible for someone as dumb and crooked as Trump getting in power.
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Are you thinking of Ruth Bader Ginsburg? Because I'm not sure what you're talking about otherwise.
5Bush v Gore set women back significantly.
I mean, I guess, in the sense that it set everybody back significantly. Framing it as an anti-feminist ruling in particular is a weird take, though.
3No it didn't.
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