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    Sandra Day O'Connor

    Read through the most famous quotes from Sandra Day O'Connor




    If you take a position under the Constitution that is against the majority view, you have to explain it well enough that maybe you can persuade some of that majority to agree with you. ↗


    — Sandra Day O'Connor

    #agree #constitution #enough #explain #majority

    It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren. ↗


    — Sandra Day O'Connor

    #difficult #discern #liberty #religious #religious liberty

    It is true that as you have children, there are a good many months when you don't want to be working full-time. I agree that that's an issue. ↗


    — Sandra Day O'Connor

    #children #full-time #good #i #issue

    Justice Ginsburg is a very competent justice, and it is a joy to have her on the court, but particularly for me it is a pleasure to have a second woman on the court. ↗


    — Sandra Day O'Connor

    #court #her #joy #justice #me

    Most high courts in other nations do not have discretion, such as we enjoy, in selecting the cases that the high court reviews. Our court is virtually alone in the amount of discretion it has. ↗


    — Sandra Day O'Connor

    #amount #cases #court #courts #discretion

    My concern was whether I could do the job of a justice well enough to convince the nation that my appointment was the right move. ↗


    — Sandra Day O'Connor

    #concern #convince #could #enough #i

    My hope is that 10 years from now, after I've been across the street at work for a while, they'll all be glad they gave me that wonderful vote. ↗


    — Sandra Day O'Connor

    #across #after #been #gave #glad

    Parents should continue to become more involved with their communities, and more involved in their children's education. ↗


    — Sandra Day O'Connor

    #children #communities #continue #education #involved

    The Establishment Clause prohibits government from making adherence to a religion relevant in any way to a person's standing in the political community. ↗


    — Sandra Day O'Connor

    #any #clause #community #establishment #government

    The fact is, we are a nine-member court that sits on cases. ↗


    — Sandra Day O'Connor

    #court #fact #sits






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    Did you know about Sandra Day O'Connor?

    In 1975 Sandra Day O'Connor was elected to the Maricopa County Superior Court and in 1979 was elevated to the Arizona State Court of Appeals. In a 1983 opinion upholding searches by drug-sniffing dogs Sandra Day O'Connor recognized that a search is most likely to be considered constitutionally reasonable if it is very effective at discovering contraband without revealing innocent but embarrassing information. O'Connor continues to make semi-regular visits to the college.

    Samuel Alito was nominated to take her seat in October 2005 and joined the Court on January 31 2006. Several publications have named O'Connor among the most powerful women in the world.

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