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3 Jun 2023, 3:36 am by SHG
“The Fourteenth Amendment prohibits discrimination; it does not require integration, and I think it is a mistake to intimate that it does even as a ‘goal,’ ” Rehnquist wrote in a memo to Justice Sandra Day OConnor as part of an effort to have her remove a passage from an election decision. [read post]
31 May 2023, 5:01 am by Rick Garnett
Just one year later, Justice Breyer revealed his reservations about inflexible judicial policing of a strict form of public secularism: In Capitol Square, he joined concurring opinions by Justices Sandra Day O'Connor and David Souter rejecting the claim that it unconstitutionally "endorsed" religion for an official body to permit a private group to display a cross during the Christmas season in Columbus, Ohio's Capitol Square. [read post]
21 May 2023, 9:14 am by CrimProf BlogEditor
Washburn and Derrick Beetso Arizona State University (ASU) - Sandra Day OConnor College of Law, Arizona... [read post]
10 May 2023, 9:35 am by CrimProf BlogEditor
Washburn and Derrick Beetso (Arizona State University (ASU) - Sandra Day OConnor College of Law, Arizona State University (ASU) - Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, University of Iowa College of Law and... [read post]
9 May 2023, 12:35 pm by Lawrence Solum
Ilan Wurman (Arizona State University (ASU) - Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law) has posted Reversing Incorporation (99 Notre Dame Law Review, (2023 Forthcoming)) on SSRN. [read post]
9 May 2023, 9:00 am by Paul Caron
Eric Segall (Georgia State), Political Polarization, Legal Education, and a Few Modest but Serious Proposals: Twenty years ago, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor wrote the following in Grutter v. [read post]
5 May 2023, 1:48 pm by Ilya Somin
" For the most part, Justice Scalia's dissent echoes themes from Justice Sandra Day O'Connor's lead dissent, which he had already agreed to join. [read post]
4 May 2023, 9:51 pm by Ilya Somin
Why did Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, author of the lead dissenting opinion in Kelo, change her mind about "public use" between 1984 and 2005? [read post]
4 May 2023, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
G from the files of former (and now deceased) Justice John Paul Stevens, including a pre-oral-argument four-page memo Justice Sandra Day OConnor had distributed to all her colleagues, laying out Justice OConnor’s preferred approach for resolving the dispute. [read post]
4 May 2023, 7:59 am by Derek Muller
Yesterday, I looked at the draft memorandum Justice Sandra Day OConnor circulated on December 10, 2000, ahead of the December 11 oral argument in Bush v. [read post]
4 May 2023, 4:00 am by Eric Segall
 By Eric SegallTwenty years ago, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor wrote the following in Grutter v. [read post]
3 May 2023, 1:45 pm by Josh Blackman
O'Connor basically wrote what would become the Rehnquist concurrence, but later O'Connor ultimately joined Kennedy's more moderate opinion based on the Equal Protection Clause. [read post]
3 May 2023, 11:49 am by Ilya Somin
Justice Sandra Day O'Connor wrote the lead dissenting opinion, in which she forcefully criticized the majority and argued that the ruling placed all private property potentially at risk. [read post]
3 May 2023, 10:09 am by Derek Muller
Over at CNN, Joan Biskupic has a four-page memorandum that Justice Sandra Day OConnor circulated to the justices before oral… Continue reading The post Justice OConnor created the framework and the heart of the language for Chief Justice Rehnquist’s concurring opinion in Bush v. [read post]
3 May 2023, 7:41 am
  The article is about how Sandra Day OConnor kept Chief Justice Rehnquist from having a majority for deciding the case the same way on a different legal theory. [read post]
3 May 2023, 7:23 am by SCOTUSblog
Here’s the Wednesday morning read: New documents show how Sandra Day OConnor helped George W. [read post]
Of course, Supreme Court appointments are mired in politics, but in a country with extraordinary religious diversity, this configuration demands explanation.The 1981 Court: 3 Episcopalians, 2 Presbyterians, and one Catholic, Lutheran, Methodist, and ProtestantWhen Justice Sandra Day OConnor, who is Episcopalian, joined the Court in 1981, there were two other Episcopalians (Justices Thurgood Marshall and Byron White), two Presbyterians (Chief Justice Warren… [read post]
1 May 2023, 9:30 am by Administrator
Another example that raises this same question is the visit by several justices to a luxury resort in Arizona in January to celebrate former Justice Louise Arbour’s receipt of the Sandra Day OConnor Justice Prize. [read post]