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...There was always a moderately conservative swing justice — Sandra Day O’Connor or Anthony Kennedy — willing to vote with the liberal justices on both of those policies....
...I spent a lot of time with my mum and aunties – not exactly playing football – and I loved Donatella Versace and fashion TV, and I would often go to see musicals with my big sister Sandra, who was 14 years...
...I still remember when I was preparing to argue a case before the Supreme Court in 2004, an older colleague warned me not to mix her up with Sandra Day O’Connor, then the only other female justice....
...Sandra Day O’Connor, Anthony Kennedy and David Souter were Republican-appointed judges who dismayed the right with their subsequent decisions....
...Similar predictions of a conservative onslaught have been made before — when Justice Samuel Alito replaced Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, or Justice David Souter followed Justice William Brennan — and proved...
...Examples include Sandra Day O’Connor, who defended Roe v Wade, the 1973 ruling that enshrined abortion rights, and Anthony Kennedy, whose retirement last month created the vacancy....
...When her characters succeed in making contact, it’s like Sandra Bullock grabbing George Clooney’s hand in Gravity – two bodies, adrift in a weightless cosmos, tentatively, yet gloriously moored....
...Here is Allen Ginsberg imagining Walt Whitman in a supermarket: “We strode down the open corridors together in our solitary fancy . . . ”; and here is Mary Frances Kennedy’s complex evolution into the gastronomic...
...“Socks with sandals are a definite no-no – I don’t care who you are,” says Sandra Choi, creative director at Jimmy Choo. “I’m against nothing,” says Hardy....
...The best guesses were that if there was a swing vote that would decide the outcome, it would be Justice Anthony Kennedy, because that is the role, inherited from retired justice Sandra Day O’Connor, he has...
...Ms Kennedy says: “It’s actually going to take a long while for DB to die as such but it’s important for both DB and DC to access infrastructure....
...She had counted Senators John Kerry and Ted Kennedy as neighbours, and raised four children....
...“It becomes a defining sculptural element [but] it’s also about reshaping the space,” says Patrick Kennedy, director and designer of UK-based Spiral Staircase Systems....
...On the eve of Barack Obama’s inauguration, former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor co-hosted with Wynton Marsalis “Celebrating America”, a glitzy concert at Washington’s Kennedy Centre featuring...
...So The New York Times was quite correct: the net addition of one conservative (Mr Alito replaced Sandra Day O’Connor) has moved the court to the right....
...“For some people, having a car with a celebrity owner puts quite a premium on it,” says Sandra Kesky Button, chairman of the Pebble Beach Concours D’Elegance....
...He holds the balance of power on the closely divided court, stepping into the shoes of Sandra Day O’Connor, who retired in January....
...The computer was particularly effective at predicting the crucial swing votes of Justices O’Connor and Anthony Kennedy....
...Sandra Gidley, a member of the frontbench team, said he should think “very hard” about whether he had the strength to take on the “triple demons” of the Conservative and Labour parties, as well as alcohol...
...Senator Ted Kennedy, another likely opponent, said the statements were ?deeply troubling?, adding that Mr Alito would face a ?heavy burden?...
...In future, Justice Anthony Kennedy – a moderate conservative, but a liberal on many social issues – will hold the crucial fifth vote to make a majority of the nine....
...Several people, including Laura Bush, the first lady, had encouraged the president to choose a woman to fill the seat being left vacant by Sandra Day O’Connor, one of only two women on the court....
...Victory in many decisions went to the side that persuaded the moderates Justice O'Connor and Justice Anthony Kennedy leading some to speak of the “O'Kennedy court”....
...Most politicians and political activists were quick to praise Justice Sandra Day O'Connor on Friday, but their reaction to her retirement left little doubt about the intensity of the battle to come over...
...“There's no doubt that part of what's happened in the additional numbers in the 1990s have created a huge bubble,” says Sandra Boyd of the National Association of Manufacturers, which lobbied heavily for...
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