I think it’s inevitable that some of the court’s decisions will be found by a segment of the public to be not the right decision or subject to criticism.
SANDRA DAY O'CONNORI had become increasingly concerned in recent years about the lack of civics education in our nation’s schools. In recent years, the schools have stopped teaching it. And it’s unfortunate.
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(W)e do not count heads before enforcing the First Amendment.
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I have always thought that while it’s wonderful to be the first to do something, you don’t want to be the last.
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I think most people didn’t want to do court duty.
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I like to think that the court will continue to be held in high regard by the public. I think it should be.
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Each justice hires their own clerks, and applications are made individually to the justices. It isn’t a group decision.
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Slaying the dragon of delay is no sport for the short-winded.
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I think I learned to appreciate and treasure each day, because you don’t know how many you’re going to be given.
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I finally gave up my little law practice and stayed home for about three years. You have to do what you can to keep the family going. But I wanted to get back to work. So I got another babysitter and went to work as an Assistant Attorney General.
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Liberty finds no refuge in a jurisprudence of doubt.
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Unfortunately civility is hard to codify or legislate, but you know it when you see it. It’s possible to disagree without being disagreeable.
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It is true that as you have children, there are a good many months when you don’t want to be working full-time. I agree that that’s an issue.
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Having family responsibilities and concerns just has to make you a more understanding person.
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If I stumbled badly in doing the job, I think it would have made life more difficult for women, and that was a great concern of mine and still is.
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What was a problem was the excessive amount of media attention to the appointment of the first woman and everything she did. Everywhere that Sandra went, the press was sure to go. And that got tiresome; it was stressful.
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And I went off to Stanford, I was pretty young and pretty naive. And I had a professor I really loved, who was himself a lawyer.
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