Is it too late to get O'Connor to take back her resignation?

[kweerwolf]

You just know Sandra Day O'Connor is pissed that * picked a man to replace her on the Supreme Court. She has said publicly that he should pick a woman to replace her. (And that whole Harriet Miers flap was no doubt an insult to O'Connor, giving that Miers was completely unqualified for the role.)

Granted, it's an unlikely scenario, but is it possible she could be talked into taking back her resignation?

[niyad]

1. think it is too late now--besides, she wants to be with her husband.

[zanne]

2. Do you think she had "help"

in her decision to resign? I think it's very obvious that someone who retires from the Supreme Court (especially a swing voter) who is in good health had a little "encouragement" to do so.

[dsc]

4. She has wanted to retire since 2000

due to the then poor health of her husband. He has presumedly only gotten worse in the last few years.

[SoCalDem]

6. Yeppers.. She was overheard by more than a few people

at a party...saying... "She hoped Bush won so that she could retire during a republican adminsitration"...and a month or so later SHE helped create that administration by interfering in the Florida debacle...

[Ian David]

3. Maybe she never really intended to resign in the first place?

Maybe this is precisely the sort of thing she wanted to put Bush through?

I know, that is a very long shot!

But it sure would be kind of funny!

[joeybee12]

5. Let's not deify her just yet...after all, her help gave us this unelected

President...she never had any thought of voting the other way in Gore v Bush.

[kweerwolf]

7. LOL! Apparently other groups are thinking along the same lines

Here's something I found on the National Organization of Women (NOW) web site:

NOW Urges O'Connor to Remain on Court

Statement of National Organization for Women President Kim Gandy

Today's withdrawal by Harriet Miers as a nominee to the Supreme Court illustrates once again the stranglehold George W. Bush's base of religious and political extremists have on his administration.

The real reason Bush's right-wing base demanded her withdrawal was the lack of an iron-clad guarantee (which they had with John Roberts) that Miers would be a solid vote to overturn longstanding precedents like Roe v. Wade and uphold abortion restrictions enacted under this administration.

Conservatives were looking for their own kind of "activist" judge and Miers did not appear to fit the bill.

<snip>

We need a proven and independent justice on the Supreme Court. Someone who will uphold our core fundamental rights and constitutional protections. Someone who will not turn back the clock on women's rights and human rights. Someone who is not beholden to any extreme faction.

http://now.org/press/10-05/10-27.html

[niyad]

8. by the way, it's the National Organizaton FOR Women, not OF

[Bridget Burke]

9. Her resignation is not the problem....

Her vote to install Bush as President caused the damage.

I hope she has many years of leisure in which she can witness the effects of her 2000 vote. I believe she is a decent enough person that she will feel regret.

Why didn't she retire in 2001, if she was so eager to be with her husband?