Sandra Day O' Connor

Sandra Day O’Connor was the first woman ever to be appointed as an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court. O’Connor was the right woman at the right moment. To offset criticism of his opposition to the Equal Rights Amendment in 1980, Reagan promised to appoint the fist woman to the Supreme Court. During O’Connor’s first year on the Court, she made it clear she was a conservative. Although showing some signs of moving toward the center, O’Connor has most often voted with Rehnquist and Burger. Time Magazine labeled her William H. Rehnquist’s “Arizona twin”. In her first term the two voted together on twenty-seven of he

I found none of Ponnuru’s information contradicts itself. As I read in other articles, everyone agrees O’Connor is conservative, as she admits it herself. Most authors’ stated the same information, such as her being chosen to the position because he was determined to follow through on his commitment to include women in high places of authority and importance. One positive thing to state about the article is the fact he used many examples, such as cases like Roe v. Wade, Gore v. Bush, U.S. v. Lopez and many others. The article didn’t give any other articles websites or places to look and get more information on this topic, but it was not difficult at all to search and find other sources on my own.

Unfortunately after repeatedly reading this article I’m not quite sure whether he is for or against O’Connor. At times I thought maybe he sided with her but at other times he seemed to have a problem with the way she handled cases and how she ruled on them. I wasn’t quite sure what point Ponnuru was trying to make, but one point that seemed to get across is the Courts, mainly O’Connor, is entirely too

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