Sandra Day O'Connor Quotes
The money is given in these state judges elections by the very people who will appear before these judges. Now that can’t be a good system.
Sandra Day O'Connor, U. S. Supreme Court Justice, Comment about elections for judges in some states where the judges have to raise campaign funds, PBS The Charlie Rose Show, September 26, 2006
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The Senator had been criticized for taking campaign contributions from gamblers who were part of organized crime. Although his defense was the legality of gambling in Nevada, despite various efforts to reduce the influence of organized crime in the gambling industry, there is still some involvement and influence.
He was right but his timing was a little early.
Norquist, Abramoff, and Congressman Tom Delay had created a shakedown scheme to extract money for Republicans from lobbyists and to punish any who donated to Democrats. Although Norquist wanted 50 more, Abramoff was convicted and sentenced to jail in one of the biggest political scandals in modern times. Delay also was indicted.
Abramoff had bribed over 100 Congressional offices by a combination of campaign donations, paid golf junkets all over the world, free elegant meals at his own fancy Washington Restaurant, free tickets for the Congressmen, their staffs and their major constituents, to Concerts and sporting events including his own Skyboxes, and promises of future employment at very high salaries. Ironically, we was convicted of cheating some of his lobbying clients and did a jail term, but his “bribery” was technically usually legal. In addition to Abramoff, only one Congressman was charged and convicted of corruption, when many if not most had engaged in these corrupt practices. Congress makes the rules with loopholes so that what is bribery and corruption in any other setting is often not against the law if Congress is involved.
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.
