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What’s Next? Pink Taffeta Justice Robes?

July 7, 1981

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Type: Newspaper mention
Author: United Press International
Source: The Phoenix Gazette
Collection: The Kauffman-Henry Collection
Date is approximate: No

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WASHINGTON (UPI) – Sexism dies hard in some places in Washington. A longtime official of the Senate, which has only two women members – the most it has ever had at one time – walked by the United Press International news wire and learned of the nomination of Sandra .O’Connor, 51, as Supreme Court justice. The old-time Democrat, a high-ranking member of the sergeant-at-arms staff who did not wish to be quoted by name, said, “I see he nominated a woman … the O’Connor girl.”-

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