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...Former US Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, the first woman to sit on America’s most powerful bench and a decisive figure on issues including affirmative action and abortion, has died aged 93....
...Sandra Day O'Connor, the US Supreme Court Justice who died on Friday aged 93, was once arguably the most powerful woman in America....
...from Reagan onwards....
...Some of the people Jang photographed there, such as Ronald Reagan and Frank Sinatra, were hugely famous; many — such as the wizened, weird older man glaring out from the photograph hanging at the San Francisco...
...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....
...“You’d be surprised,” Ronald Reagan famously remarked after his first presidential trip to Latin America in 1982. “They’re all different countries.” And indeed they are....
...He holds the balance of power on the closely divided court, stepping into the shoes of Sandra Day O’Connor, who retired in January....
...Both Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito opposed racial quotas when they were young lawyers in the administration of President Ronald Reagan....
...The documents, released on Monday by the Ronald Reagan presidential library, included Mr Alito?s application for a political post in the Reagan Justice Department in which he said ?...
...But some Democrats and liberal groups showed clear unease at the prospect of an appointment that put a conservative in the critical swing seat of the retiring Sandra Day O'Connor....
...Judge Alito also gave further signals indicating he would not overturn Roe v Wade, if confirmed to the Supreme Court to replace Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, according to Mr Specter....
...The US Senate was set on Tuesday to begin consideration of her proposed replacement, John Roberts, a former Reagan administration official with solid conservative credentials....
...He called her “a pioneer in the field of law, breaking down barriers to women that remained a generation after President Reagan appointed Justice O'Connor to the Supreme Court”....
...When Justice Potter Stewart retired in 1981, President Ronald Reagan turned to Mrs O'Connor....
...The resignation of Sandra Day O'Connor from the US Supreme Court is likely to provoke a culture war of historic proportions in America....
...She did not always vote in line with the president who appointed her Ronald Reagan....
...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...
...Democrats are likely to question Judge Roberts, 50, on memos he wrote as a top government lawyer in the Reagan administration....
...Mr Roberts - a former clerk to Chief Justice William Rehnquist - worked in the Reagan Justice Department and as deputy solicitor general during the first Bush administration....
...Instead, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor surprised many by announcing that she would retire....
...Or is he a business-minded pragmatist, like the woman he aims to replace, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor?...
...Bush nominated John Roberts to replace retiring justice Sandra Day O’Connor (Roberts has since been tapped for Rehnquist’s post), Democratic senator Dick Durbin of Illinois told reporters: “Be careful that...
...Justice Anthony Kennedy was appointed by President Ronald Reagan but he recently pushed the court to defend homosexuality and abolish the juvenile death penalty....
...Sandra Day O’Connor Sandra Day O’Connor is the first woman appointed to the Supreme Court, chosen by President Reagan in 1981, and has regularly been the deciding vote on split cases, most notably recently...
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