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Sep 23, 2020 · Sandra Day O'Connor was nominated to the Supreme Court by President Reagan on August 19, 1981, thus fulfilling his 1980 campaign promise to appoint the first woman to the highest court in the United States.
On July 7, 1981, President Ronald Reagan announces his intention to nominate Sandra Day O’Connor, an Arizona court of appeals judge, to be the first woman Supreme Court justice in U.S. history,...
Dec 1, 2023 · TIME explained why so many approved of the choice in a 1981 cover story about the nomination: Other than on the far right, reaction to the nomination ranged from warm to ecstatic.
Dec 1, 2023 · This was the ambivalent reaction of Justice Sandra Day O'Connor to the nomination of her successor to the US Supreme Court. Such sentiments were typical of O'Connor, the first...
Sep 23, 2021 · After Justice O’Connor’s retirement from the court and mine from the Supreme Court beat at The Times, we saw each other with some regularity.
“She had no constituency”—with one important exception. Supreme Court Justice William Rehnquist “came on strong for O’Connor,” Habicht recalled. He did so “privately, behind the scenes.
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Nov 9, 2009 · Sandra Day O’Connor (1930-2023) was an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1981 to 2006, and was the first woman to serve on the Supreme Court. A moderate...
