Interview with Fox News Sunday

WASHINGTON – "FOX NEWS SUNDAY" HOST CHRIS WALLACE: Even though Sandra Day O'Connor has retired from the Supreme Court, that doesn't mean the nation's first female justice is taking it easy.

She's in the process of putting together her own Web site to teach students about the court system and to try to answer critics she believes are going too far. We sat down with her late this week at the Supreme Court.

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Justice O'Connor, welcome to "FOX News Sunday."

FORMER JUSTICE SANDRA DAY O'CONNOR: Thank you.

WALLACE: You say that one of the things that got you started thinking about this Web site were all of the partisan attacks on judges, all the talk about activist judges legislating from the court.

Why does that kind of talk disturb you?

O'CONNOR: It was a concern to me because I've lived a long time now. I'm a product of the last century, you know. And I do not remember a time when there were such a broad and widespread range of critics of judges.

Now, when I was a youngster I do remember seeing on the highway out by the Lazy B Ranch a big billboard saying, "Impeach Earl Warren," and that was in the years when there were some cases like Miranda and some criminal cases, and people got all excited.

But what we're seeing now is a more broadly based range of criticisms of the nation's courts, both state and federal, and we saw it in the last election.

Do you remember in South Dakota there was a proposal on their ballot to amend the state constitution? It was