Here are some excerpts from my 2019 review of Evan Thomas’s First: Sandra Day O’Connor and Joan Biskupic’s The Chief: The Life and Turbulent Times of Chief Justice John Roberts
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I’m sure all those people who suffered through the next eight years will be consoled by her belated regret and glad to hear she kept her chin up about it.
-kd
Posted by: kotodama | Dec 1, 2023 8:27:14 PM
She came within a few years to regret her vote in Bush v. Gore, and the Court having decided it at all. But she was the antithesis of self-flagellating — she kept her chin up and her public remarks terse and responsible to the Court’s reputation, and she moved forward with public service, so admirably.
Posted by: John Q. Barrett | Dec 1, 2023 6:06:52 PM
Looking back, O’Connor said, she isn’t sure the high court should have taken the case.
“It took the case and decided it at a time when it was still a big election issue,” O’Connor said during a talk Friday with the Tribune editorial board. “Maybe the court should have said, ‘We’re not going to take it, goodbye.'”
Big FWIW but anyway. Her support of iCivics also warrants a nod.
Posted by: Joe | Dec 1, 2023 12:31:43 PM