O’Connor and her spouse have $1.1 million assets

WASHINGTON (AP) – Sandra O’Connor, in town a week early to prepare for Senate hearings on her nomination to the Supreme Court, has disclosed that she and her husband are worth more than $1 million. . In a written response to a Senate Judiciary Committee questionnaire, O’Connor endorsed “neutral” enforcement of equal rights and said she is “keenly aware of the problems associated with ‘judicial activism.”‘ “The separation of powers principle also requires judges to avoid substituting their own views of what is desirable in a particular case for those of the legislature,” she wrote. “Judges are not only not authorized to engage in executive or legislative functions, they are also ill-equipped to do so. Serious difficulties arise when a judge undertakes to act as an administrator or supervisor in an area requiring expertise, and judges who purport to decide matters of public policy are certainly not as attuned to the public will as are the members of the politically accountable branches.” O’Connor’s view on equal rights is likely to gladden opponents of affirmative action. ”The essence of equal justice under the law, in my view, is that neutral laws be applied in a neutral fashion,” she wrote. She said she has worked for equal rights for women by seeking repeal of “a nwnber of outmoded Arizon~ statutes” including one that barred women from working more than eight hours a day. She said she also developed model legislation to allow women to manage property held jointly with their