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Good morning, I'm Taylor Wilson and today is Saturday, December 2nd,

2023. This is the excerpt.

Today, remembering former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor,

plus George Santos has been expelled from Congress,

and we hear from the Golden Bachelor.

Retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor has died.

She was the first woman to serve on the nation's highest court

and was a crucial swing vote during her

nearly 25 year tenure. She was President Ronald Reagan's first nominee to the

Supreme Court joining in 1981 after previously serving as majority leader in Arizona State Senate, also the first

woman to hold that title in the nation.

During her time on the Supreme Court, O'Connor was often a pivotal vote in blockbuster cases.

That includes helping to craft a 1992 opinion in Planned Parenthood versus Casey,

which upheld a woman's right to an abortion, but allowed states to impose additional restrictions.

That decision, along with the 1973 ruling in Roe v. Wade, was overruled by the court's conservative

majority last year.

O'Connor also cast decisive swing votes in landmark cases involving affirmative action,

environmental protection, and religious freedom.

Raised on an Arizona cattle ranch,

she called herself the first cow girl to serve on the Supreme Court.

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