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Dec 1, 2023 · Northeastern University law expert Daniel Urman remembered the late Sandra Day O’Connor — the first woman to serve on the Supreme Court — as a trailblazing historical figure and powerful swing vote whose independent streak and pragmatism would make her unlikely to be nominated to the high court today.
Dec 1, 2023 · Women Who Shaped History. A Smithsonian magazine special report. History | December 1, 2023. How Sandra Day O’Connor Brought Compromise to the Supreme Court. The first woman justice to...
Dec 2, 2023 · Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, who died on Friday at the age of 93, expressed regret publicly over one vote she cast: in the case of Republican Party of Minnesota v. White, a 2002 ruling that...
Dec 5, 2023 · Dec 05, 2023. United States Supreme Court Associate Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, the first woman to serve on the Supreme Court, died Dec. 1. She was 93. Nominated by President Ronald Reagan, O’Connor made history when she was unanimously confirmed by the Senate on Sept. 21, 1981 .
Dec 1, 2023 · She was 93. Her cause of death was complications related to advanced dementia and a respiratory illness. Chief Justice John Roberts said in a statement that O'Connor "blazed an historic trail...
Dec 1, 2023 · 0:51. Sandra Day O'Connor's legacy in her own words. Sandra Day O'Connor, the first woman to sit on the US Supreme Court, has died at the age of 93. She died on Friday morning in...
Dec 19, 2023 · 12:31 p.m. ET, December 19, 2023. Barriers that Sandra O'Connor successfully broke "are almost unthinkable today," Chief Justice Roberts says.
