Welcome back to

to H. Sisters-In-law with with Jill Wine Banks, Kimberly Atkins Store, Joyce Vance, and me Barb McQuaid.

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Now let's get on to the show where this week we'll be discussing the latest in

the Trump cases voting rights and the Supreme Court's hearing on SEC

proceedings. But first I wanted to say, did you folks see that Sandra Day O'Connor has

passed away? Yeah, it was really terrible. Sad news. She was 93 and of course she had been retired from the court for quite some time due to health reasons, not her own initially, but to care for her husband who had Alzheimer's. But I remember I was just a

teenager. I was in high school the first time I ever came to Washington DC. It was actually

the first time I ever flew on a plane.

And I was able to go to the Supreme Court and she was kind enough to speak to the group of students that I was with and she was funny and warm and brilliant and the only request that was made by the court before we talked to her is that we'd not take photographs because she was also battling cancer but she was on the job she

was working and it just really underscored my decision I knew I was pretty sure I

wanted to go to law school that solidified it to having a woman like that break the barriers that she

had to break in order to get to that spot and clear the way for for people like me.

I may not have always agreed with her opinions but I certainly

respected her jurisprudence including the fact that she upheld abortion rights

even though she was a lifelong Republican.

She was an elected official in Arizona.

She was in the state legislature.

But I always respected her skills and her intelligence.

it really is a loss.

Something I've been thinking about so much today is how different the court would look

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