Content tagged with “Justice Sandra Day O'Connor”
In the 2003 Supreme Court decision in Grutter v. Bollinger, Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, writing for the Court, upheld the University of Texas’s use of affirmative action in its law school admission...
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During a program at the Aspen Institute's Ideas Festival, Justice Stephen Breyer and retired Justice Sandra Day O'Connor both rejected the hoary notion that the "Supreme Court follows the election...
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Noah Feldman talks about his new book Scorpions: The Battles and Triumphs of FDR’s Great Supreme Court Justices (Twelve Books).
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Moderated by Walter Isaacson, President & CEO of the Aspen Institute. Justice O’Connor became the first woman to serve on the US Supreme Court in 1981 and served on the bench for 24 years before...
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