Sandra Day O'Connor Quotes


Appearances do matter.


Context

The Supreme Court was hearing a redistricting case. The Georgia legislature and voted to approve a map showing the new districts. Some of the districts were so torturously drawn, that two non-contiguous areas were put in the same district and connected by an area in between that was so thin, it only included a state highway and its right of way where there were of course no voters. Justice O’Conner and other justices thought the map itself was sufficient grounds to reject the redistricting plan, though there was much other evidence as well.


Citations

Sandra Day O'Connor, U. S. Supreme Court Justice, 1996

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Sandra Day O'Connor
  • Born: March 26, 1930
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Judge

Sandra Day O'Connor is a retired attorney and politician who served as the first woman associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1981 to 2006. She was the first woman nominated and confirmed. Nominated by President Ronald Reagan, she was considered the swing vote for the Rehnquist Court and the beginning of the Roberts Court.