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I think most people didn’t want to do court duty.

Sandra Day O'Connor

The power I exert on the court depends on the power of the power of my arguments, not my gender
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Argument Court Gender
How dare you make my life a felony.
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Dare Felony Gay Lgbt
(W)e do not count heads before enforcing the First Amendment.
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Atheism Firsts Religion
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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Lawyers Professors Young
I’m a judge. It seemed to me that it was critical to try to take action to stem the criticism and help people understand that in the constitutional framework, it’s terribly important not to have a system of retaliation against decisions people don’t like.
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Decision Judging People
It was better for me when I was joined at the court by a second woman. When I was there alone, there was too much media focus on the one woman, and the minute we got another woman, that changed.
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Focus Media Too Much
Having family responsibilities and concerns just has to make you a more understanding person.
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Family Nature Women
Society as a whole benefits immeasurably from a climate in which all persons, regardless of race or gender, may have the opportunity to earn respect, responsibility, advancement and remuneration based on ability.
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Equality Opportunity Responsibility
If statistics are any indication, the system may well be allowing some innocent defendants to be executed.
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Death May Penalty Statistics
Each justice hires their own clerks, and applications are made individually to the justices. It isn’t a group decision.
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Clerks Decision Justice
Historically courts in this country have been insulated. We do not look beyond our borders for precedents.
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Borders Country Looks
I think most people didn’t want to do court duty.
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Duty People Thinking Want
Do the best you can in every task, no matter how unimportant it may seem at the time. No one learns more about a problem than the person at the bottom.
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Learning Tasks Time
I think people know very little, really, about the court, how it works and its history. And both of those things are important in our country, but they’re not things that most citizens know much about.
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Country People Thinking
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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Home Keep Law Wanted Years
[G]overnment endorsement . . . of religion . . . sends a message to nonadherents that they are outsiders, not full members of the political community, and an accompanying message to adherents that they are insiders, favored members of the political community.
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Church Community Political

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