Sandra Day O'Connor, first woman on Supreme Court, dies at 93

[kpete]

Source: CNBC

Sandra Day O’Connor, the first woman to serve as a justice on the U.S. Supreme Court, has died.

O’Connor was 93 years old.

This is breaking news. Please check back for updates

Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/12/01/sandra-day-oconnor-first-woman-on-supreme-court-dies-at-93.html

[SouthernDem4ever]

1. Thanks for putting Bush in office

I am glad she lived long enough to see how what she did really F'd this country.

There's a whole write-up about her legacy in USAToday that talks about things being dismantled that she had voted for during her time on the court. The article left out that the reason this all happened was because she handed the presidency to GW Bush. That started the chain reaction of shit we are still in today.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2023/12/02/sandra-day-oconnor-supreme-courts-legacy-grutter-casey/71768837007/

[raccoon]

9. You beat me to the post.

[not fooled]

28. Yep. My first thought exactly.

That will be her legacy. She screwed the nation, big time, and will be forever remembered for doing so.

Not the outcome she was expecting, no doubt.

[BigDemVoter]

33. EXACTLY

You took the words right out of my mouth. . . . I am not sad to see her go. . . . She had no integrity at all, and of course what's new? She was just a precursor for the right-wing loonies we have on the SCOTUS today.

[Autumn]

2. She installed Bush as president and set us on this path

Fuck her and let the white washing begin.

[Voltaire2]

4. I was pleasantly surprised by the lack of

revisionist bullshit over war criminal and all around monster Kissinger.

[Autumn]

5. So was I but the elephant in the room was ignored.

It had to be.

[Voltaire2]

7. Indeed.

That would have been way too much.

[progressoid]

10. Now now, kids. Let's not talk about this delicate matter.

We don't want to make anyone uncomfortable.

[progressoid]

11. "elephant in the room"

Understatement of the day.

[SpankMe]

3. I wonder who Joe will nominate to replace her?

- snark -

[peppertree]

23. On a cinematic note, this reminds me of the Walter Matthau comedy 'First Monday in October'

In which a liberal justice (Matthau) grapples with, and eventually comes to befriend, the new conservative justice (Jill Clayburgh).

The coincidences were so many, that the movie's release was brought up a few months to coincide with the O'Connor hearings.

[Polybius]

26. Funny thing is, if she didn't retire she have had the record of longest serving Justice

By far.

[Scottie Mom]

6. FUCK HER.

She gave us that idiot Baby Bush. Not because the Fla recount really was over, but because she was a fucking Repuke.

[peppertree]

12. And everything that came with him

"I have a daughter who is great doctor, helping heal the sick in Soviet Union."
"I have a son who's a great dancer and really smart, too - even if we don't agree on much."

"Well - I'll admit my son's a shitwit. But you see those buildings? Yeah - and he'll get away with it too!"

[Scottie Mom]

15. Boy, is that true.

Thank you for that reply.

I detest Sandra Day O’Connor. She caused HARM! Great HARM, by being Repuke first and a jurist second.

🤬

[peppertree]

16. You bet - and, yes, if there's one thing Republicans DON'T believe in, it's John McCain's motto:

[Skittles]

36. she tried so many times to "explain" that

but we all knew the REASON: she was a REPUKE HACK

[orleans]

8. 2013: "It turned out the election authorities in Florida hadn't done a real good job there and kind of messed it up. And

"It turned out the election authorities in Florida hadn’t done a real good job there and kind of messed it up. And probably the Supreme Court added to the problem at the end of the day.” "

(sandra's hindsight)

https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/02/politics/bush-gore-oconnor-supreme-court-2000/index.html
New documents show how Sandra Day O’Connor helped George W. Bush win the 2000 election
-may 2023

[SouthernDem4ever]

34. I didn't need documents, I watched the asshole do it

then she wouldn't sign her name to it because she knew it was wrong.

[underpants]

13. Oddly she followed Kissinger as Chancellor at William & Mary

[CanonRay]

14. Author of the first big step

towards politicizing the SCOTUS

[bdamomma]

17. RIP

Justice O'Connor.

[former9thward]

18. She taught one of my law school classes.

Very pleasant. Much more so than most of the professors there.

[Upthevibe]

19. kpete ...............

I've never forgiven her for being the deciding vote in the 2000 sElection...............

NEVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A friend and I were just now talking about the probability of a much different world we'd be living in now had it not been for her and her vote

President Clinton told incoming President Bush that the most important issue at hand was Osama Bin Laden and Al Queda. The Bush Administration completely ignored that entire situation.

Had there been a President Gore and not Bush there very possibility wouldn't have been:

*9/11
*No wars in Afgahanstan and Iraq
*Much further along on climate change
*Common sense gun laws
*No Trump
My God.....Obviously, I could go on and on and on

I believe in Karma. My belief is that anyone who was harmed by an action they took (and how it effected the people in there lives) feel what they felt 10x over. If we're looking at the consequences of her ONE VOTE, that's a lot! For starters, 3,000 people dying on 9/11 and all of pain endured by their loved ones. There's no point in me getting into the weeds on this but wow!

Conversely, any of the kindnesses one has given receive those feelings 10x over.

I hope Sandra Day O'Connor is receiving her just rewards.

[LisaM]

22. She should have recused herself.

On election night 2000, she was apparently heard saying it was terrible when it appeared that Gore might win, because she wanted to retire and didn't want a Democrat to nominate her replacement. So it was a clear conflict of interest, yet she participated in the decision anyway (Scalia and Thomas had conflicts of interest, too).

[elleng]

20. ;-(

[BWdem4life]

21. So?

[Bo Zarts]

24. "Come on Sandy baby, loosen up. You're too tight." - John Riggins

That was Washington footballer (fullback) John Riggins, shortly before the Scotch & wine put him facedown at the Washington Press Club’s annual salute to Congress banquet at the end of January 1985.

[jaxexpat]

25. "This is breaking news. Please check back for updates"......Huh?

Is she expected to resurrect herself and cast another tie-breaking vote or something?

[SouthernDem4ever]

35. LOL

What's really bad is I thought she was already dead.

[jaxexpat]

37. THAT! is funny.

[Polybius]

27. Sorry to hear that

RIP Justice Sandra Day O’Connor.

[Bayard]

29. POP

Party Over People. Our world--the whole earth--could have been so much better with Gore as president.

Watch your step on the escalator down to hell, Sandy.

[The Unmitigated Gall]

30. Thanks for fucking our country into the ground, Sandra

You utter hack.
All for a narrow partisan victory.
Burn the fuck in hell.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

31. She was pro choice

Everything else about was wrong.

[diane in sf]

32. She was the deciding vote that let bush steal the presidency in 2000.

[CTyankee]

38. Thank god we have Biden as president, to replace her with a liberal justice and a woman

But this just gets us back to the status quo. Hopefully, Biden will still be in office when the next male justice dies or retires and he can appoint another liberal woman.