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The tainted legacy of Sandra Day O’Connor Sandra Day O’Connor was the first woman on the US Supreme Court. Her legacy is assured, especially given the pivotal role she played in Planned Parenthood of Southeast Pennsylvania v. Casey, upholding abortion rights. But her pioneering legacy is forever tainted by her vote in Bush v. Gore. To understand why, consider how… Read more.
Justice Clarence Thomas upstaged his conservative colleagues on the Supreme Court with his concurring opinion when they overruled Roe v. Wade (1973) last month. They defied common sense to argue that the rationale they were using to do so only applied to abortion. Read more.
Conservatives on the US Supreme Court have the whole world fretting today about what they’re up to. Because, frankly, they seem hell-bent on turning America into a Taliban-style paradise … or Gilead. They insist their job is just to apply their interpretation of what the Founding Fathers originally intended when they wrote the Constitution to… Read more.
