Is it possible for O'Connor to WITHDRAW her resignation?

[fooj]

I don't know if it can even be done...just wondering if any legal eagles have the answer!

Peace.

[SteppingRazor]

1. The bigger question is: Why would she?

I think she'd be perfectly happy being replaced by Alito.

[fooj]

3. I understand she isn't happy with her replacement nominee...

Peace.

[Freddie Stubbs]

7. Where did you get that idea?

:shrug:

[fooj]

11. Here's where I got it...

In Judge Alito's 1992 dissent in Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey, Alito argued that a law requiring a woman in certain circumstances to notify her spouse before seeking an abortion did not pose an undue burden on a woman's right to choose. Alito asserted that if parental notification requirements were constitutional, as the Supreme Court had previously held, then spousal notification requirements must be permissible as well. (Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey, 947 F.2d 682 (3d Cir. 1991), aff'd in part, rev'd in part, 505 U.S. 833 (1992).)

Alito's colleagues on the Third Circuit and a 5-4 Supreme Court majority disagreed. Writing for that Supreme Court majority, Sandra Day O'Connor firmly rejected Alito's troubling logic:

"A State may not give to a man the kind of dominion over his wife that parents exercise over their children."- O'Connor


(Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey, 505 U.S. 833 (1992) at 898.)

Sandra Day O'Connor was correct in rejecting Alito's view of women as subservient to men and less than equal in the eyes of the law.

Peace.

[mazzarro]

2. Rethugs will never accept the withdrawal of her resignation! -- n/t

[neverevergivein]

4. Are you kidding?

Now that they smell blood in the water, do you think they would allow her to resign? She'll end up in another Wellstone plane if she even thought about it.

[EC]

5. Her husband has been ill this whole time

she resigned to care for him...so no, I think she wants to be with him before he dies...

[fooj]

8. I saw her husband standing next to her on the 50 yard line

at the Rose Bowl Game...she did the coin toss. I don't know what his illness is, however, on that particular day he ok to me.

Peace.

[NYCGirl]

10. He is stricken with Alzheimer's, I believe. NT

[fooj]

12. Oh. Yikes. That's a drag...

Peace.

[shaniqua6392]

6. The Alito deal is signed, sealed and delivered.

There is nothing we can do except get more Dems elected to stop this insanity.

[fooj]

9. If what you say is true...we will NEVER get more dems elected.

...signed, sealed and delivered.

Peace.

[Nutmegger]

13. I remember reading that NOW started a petition

asking O'Connor to resign at a later time. I also read that she wanted to retire under Clinton but waited until there was a Republican president.

I had the article from CNN but it expired. (why the hell do they do that?).

http://www.now.org/lists/now-action-list/msg00210.html