![]() He acknowledges that both were at the center of a closely divided court-but in his view, Powell’s work at the high court, perhaps unlike O’Connor’s, has endured. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the first woman to sit on the United States Supreme Court comes this fascinating book about the history and evolution of the highest court in the land. Jeffries resists the “swing voter” label for either Powell or O’Connor, with its implication that they swung from one ideological pole to the other. Out of Order: Stories from the History of the Supreme Court Mar 5, 2013. I tested this theory this morning on John Jeffries, dean of the University of Virginia law school, a former clerk for famed swing justice Lewis Powell and, later, Powell’s biographer. It was a decision influenced by the decline in the health of her husband, John O’Connor III, who had been diagnosed with. That prompted her to seal her retirement decision to retire and she. It’s tempting to argue that this is the nature of being the court’s swing vote: You’re too powerful while on the bench, and then you’re obsolete once you retire. She was 75 when she announced her retirement from the court in 2005. As the annual court session was ending in June 2005, Rehnquist told O’Connor he believed he could last another year. ![]() My friend Marty Lederman predicted as much when O’Connor first retired two years ago still, the speed of it all is proving to be unsettling, if not downright unseemly. A new biography reveals how O’Connor, a moderate Republican, didn’t always vote the way people expected her to Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day OConnor pledges allegiance to the flag in 2005 at an open-air Immigration and Naturalization citizenship hearing in Gilbert, Ariz. ![]() So far, the court has explicitly minimized-or, more frequently, stepped distastefully over-O’Connor’s theoretical framework for abortion, campaign finance, and affirmative action. ![]()
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