El Paso Herald-Post, Op ed, The Kauffman-Henry Collection
Sandra O’Connor was warm, gracious and unassuming
Sandra Day O’Connor, trim and festively clad in cowboy denim and boots, walked quietly away from the dust-stirring clamor of about 700 guests and seated herself on a low, shaded wall while a Western band warmed up.
Last Sept. 20 marked the 100th anniversary of the Lazy B ranch where four generations of the Day family have grown up, never straying too far.
SANDRA, THE OLDEST of Harry Day’s children, earlier took her place beside her mother Ada Mae, brother Alan and sister Ann (Mrs. Scott Alexander) and long-time foreman Webb Cole atop a wagon that was circled by friends, relatives and guests.
Each got up from their folding chair and spoke briefly into a microphone, sharing greetings, a special anecdote or two and some slightly choking sentiments about the landmark gathering.
Sandra, with a permanent and warm smile fixed on her face, had watched her father with clear-eyed adoration as the 83-year-old patriarch stiffly fidgeted with the microphone and then launched past some brief public shyness into a reel of momentum-gathering recollections of ranch life that were lost among the mostly younger crowd, who applauded and laughed eagerly.
SANDRA’S SHORT, WELCOMING remarks were polished, gracious and almost unnoticeably forgotten – the way it was supposed to be. After all, the day was designed for nostalgia and Harry Day.
She sat quietly on the wall in front of her girlhood home and patiently studied the throng in front of her while dust sifted upward in the heat of the breezeless
Newspaper article, San Francisco Chronicle, The Kauffman-Henry Collection
What Rulings Tell of O’Connor
Washington
Sandra D. O’Connor’s opinions during her 18 months as an Arizona Court of Appeals judge display careful reasoning and use of precedent.
They do not shed much light on her attitude toward most of the controversial constitutional issues she will face if she is confirmed as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
A former Republican majority leader of the Arizona Senate, O’Connor is widely regarded as
conservative in her political outlook. Her legislative record, however.,has been attacked by anti-abortion groups that say she cast pro-abortion votes before she became a judge.
A review of O’Connor’s 30 published opinions for the Arizona Court of Appeals disclosed
none dealing with abortion. Nor did any of the opinions disclose her views on most of the other controversial constitutional issues the Supreme Court has ruled on, such as busing as a means of desegregating schools, prayer in schools, the death penalty, affirmative action and
the constitutional rights of criminal defendants.
Thus it appears to be far too early to determine whether the ideologically divided court will become more conservative or…
Address to the National Judicial College
Unknown Speaker We have all seen the symbol of justice. A lady a woman gives me a woman blindfolded with the pans of justice being impartially balanced, how long it took us to realize that real justice needed a real woman. But thank God for Sandra Day O’Connor. Unknown Speaker I need labor her distinguished career as an honors of marketing colada graduate of Stanford University, a law review person at Stanford Law School, where another young man who was cutting his way young man named Bill Rehnquist. I haven’t heard of him lately. And he sent his apologies for not being here this evening. But they were as I understand it, both on the Stanford Law Review at the same time, and I think the nation is lucky to have such two great people in our court of last resort. Sandra Day O’Connor, of course, hails from the wonderful state of, of Arizona. Her career is just a list of government service, pro bono activities, community service, and an absolute commitment to law and community. She is surely the ideal of any lawyer and any judge. I am told that when she was first appointed to the Arizona court, she asked then Dean watts if she could come to our college, technically before she ascended her new post, and Dean watts properly had her come. So I am particularly proud tonight to introduce to you for remarks, a graduate of the national judicial college, and we of course, claim credit for her present position. Sandra Day O’Connor Thank you to my colleague and friend, justice, Brandon
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J.C. Penney Co., Inc. v. Arizona Dept. of Revenue
O’CONNOR, Judge. Appellant, J. C. Penney Company, has appealed from the summary judgment granted to appellees by the trial court
Arizona Republic, Newspaper article, The Kauffman-Henry Collection
Anti-Abortionists only apparent foes of Judge O’Connor as hearing starts
WASHINGTON – Anti-abortion lobbyists ap• _pear to be the only ones opposing Senate confirmation of Sandra O’Connor of Phoenix as the first woman justice on the U.S. Supreme Court. The Senate Judiciary Committee today begins a •Ulree-day hearing on President Reagan’s nominaton M Judge O’Connor to succeed Justice Potter :S~;who retired July 3. , The hearings will. be televised on KAET, Channel 8, beginning at 7 p.m. today, Thursday and Friday. Several ardent opponents of legalized abortion are scheduled to appear before the 18-member committee to speak against Judge O’Connor’s confirmation. The~ base their opposition largely on the belief that her voting record in the Arizona Senate from 1969 to 1975 does not establish unequivocal support for the right-to-life movement. Political observers, however, expect their testi• mony fo have little influence on the committee’s vote. “I am not aware of any senator who has firmly planted his foot and said he is not going to vote for her,” said Bob Maynes, a spokesman for Sen. Dennis DeConcini, D-Ariz., a Judiciary Committee member. Maynes said the lobbyists who oppose Judge O’Conner seem to be misinterpreting her public record on the abortion issue. ”She; has said many times that she is personally opposed to abortion,” he said. “What she will not do, understandably, is commit herself in advance on hypothetical questions about what she would do if such.and-such a case came before the Supreme Court, and that’s apparently what has some people
Anti-abortionists gather to oppose Judge O’Connor
DALLAS – Anti-abortion leaders urged Thursday that U.S. Supreme Court nominee Sandra Day O’Connor remove herself from consideration or that President Reagan withdraw her name before Senate confirmation hearings begin next week. Nellie Gray of March for Life assailed Judge O’Connor ‘s nomination at a news conference beginning a 12- hour rally by a coalition of conservative Christians. She called the upcoming confirmation process for the former Arizona legislator “fatally flawed.” Miss Gray said that if Reagan and Judge O’Connor ignore her group’s d~~ds , “The Senate should recog01ze 1~ duty as an advising and consentmg_ body to bring the import.ant questions abeut the nomination before the hearings and to get the full facts before the Senate .” …