Remembering Sandra Day O’Connor

Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts

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News Commentary,, Government, News

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🗓️ 2 December 2023

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor died Friday at the age of 93. Amicus host Dahlia Lithwick is joined by former O’Connor clerk and renowned First Amendment scholar RonNell Andersen Jones to talk about the Justice’s trailblazing career, her judicial philosophy, and the combination of humility and strength that marked her time on the court, and away from it.

Later in the show, Dahlia celebrates the joyous return of Mark Joseph Stern to share some big announcements AND to discuss SEC v Jarkesy. As Mark explains, the conservative justices seemed ready, willing, and able to take another swing at the administrative state (AKA functioning government).

Mark Stern stays with us for this week’s Amicus Plus segment, taking us through some good ol’ vote suppressing stuff from MAGA-stacked lower courts choosing to ignore last term’s big voting rights decision in Allen v Milligan. Remember that time Chief Justice John Roberts and Brett Kavanagh saved voting rights? Turns out these lower courts are saying - not so much.

Dahlia’s book Lady Justice: Women, the Law and the Battle to Save America, is also available as an audiobook, and Amicus listeners can get a 25 percent discount by entering the code “AMICUS” at checkout.

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0:35.0	Hi Hi and welcome to Amicus. This is Slate's podcast about the courts and the
0:39.1	Supreme Court and the rule of law and I am Dahlia Lythwick and that's my beat at sleep.
0:45.0	I will send to the Senate the nomination of Judge Sandra Day O'Connor of Arizona
0:51.0	Court of Appeals for confirmation as an Associate Justice of the United States
0:56.4	Supreme Court.
0:59.7	My commander to you, and I urge the Senate a swift bipartisan confirmation so that as soon as
1:05.6	possible she may take her seat on the court and her place in history.
1:10.6	Sandra Day O'Connor, the first woman to sit on the U.S. Supreme Court, died Friday morning at the age of 93.
1:20.0	Appointed to the High Court in 1981 as a result of a possibly somewhat half-hearted
1:25.7	campaign promise by then President Ronald Reagan. O'Connor morphed from
1:31.5	starting off as a jurist on a mid-level court in Arizona to the single
1:37.2	most important justice on the highest court of the land. For so many American women, Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a rock star and a legend,
1:46.4	but for a whole lot of the rest of us, had there never been in O'Connor, there would not have been
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