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Saturday, December 2, 2023

“O’Connor’s Most Vital Work Was After She Stepped Down”: Jesse Wegman has this essay online at The New York Times.

Posted at 8:47 PM by Howard Bashman



“How a Supreme Court case could upend the US tax code; The justices’ review of a Republican tax law could determine whether Democrats’ dream of a wealth tax is viable”: Kelsey Reichmann of Courthouse News Service has this report.

Posted at 8:34 PM by Howard Bashman



“Supreme Court reviews Sacklers’ $6 billion exchange for opioid crisis immunity; A settlement deal aimed at stanching the nation’s bleeding wounds from the opioid epidemic will go before the Supreme Court next week”: Kelsey Reichmann of Courthouse News Service has this report.

Posted at 8:22 PM by Howard Bashman



“Sandra Day O’Connor Defined a Supreme Court Era. We’re in a Vastly Different One. A seeker of the pragmatic middle ground, the justice saw a more polarized court set aside many of her most influential rulings.” Jess Bravin of The Wall Street Journal has this report.

And John Fritze of USA Today has an article headlined “Sandra Day O’Connor reached for a middle ground. Would she fit in at the Supreme Court now? ‘She lived just long enough to see a lot of her work dismantled,’ one admirer said on the steps of the Supreme Court Friday after her death. A former clerk called her a beacon of pragmatism.”

Posted at 1:53 PM by Howard Bashman



“Sandra Day O’Connor, pathbreaking woman on Supreme Court, dies at 93; The court’s first female justice was known for her independence on the bench”: Fred Barbash of The Washington Post has written this obituary.

David G. Savage of The Los Angeles Times has written an obituary headlined “Sandra Day O’Connor, first woman appointed to Supreme Court, dead at 93.”

Jess Bravin of The Wall Street Journal has written an obituary headlined “Sandra Day O’Connor, First Woman on Supreme Court, Dies at 93; Appointed by President Reagan, she became the court’s most powerful justice for much of her tenure.”

John Fritze of USA Today has written an obituary headlined “Sandra Day O’Connor, the first woman to serve on the Supreme Court, dies at 93; O’Connor wrote about her trailblazing career: ‘How fortunate I feel to be an American and to have been presented with the remarkable opportunities available to the citizens of our country.’

Alex Swoyer of The Washington Times has written an obituary headlined “Sandra Day O’Connor, Supreme Court’s first female justice, dies at age 93.”

And Nina Totenberg of NPR has an audio segment titled “Sandra Day O’Connor, first woman on the Supreme Court, dies.”

Posted at 1:44 PM by Howard Bashman



“Sandra O’Connor’s Extraordinary Final Chapter; The Supreme Court justice found herself balancing conflicting demands of professional achievement and family expectations to the end”: Kate Zernike of The New York Times has this report.

Posted at 1:09 PM by Howard Bashman



“In and Out of the Courtroom, O’Connor Inspired a Generation of Women; The Supreme Court justice, who died at 93 on Friday, made a series of influential rulings and inspired women across a range of fields as she cemented her legacy”: Julie Bosman, Emily Cochrane, and Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs of The New York Times have this report.

Posted at 12:57 PM by Howard Bashman