Crime & Justice

Sandra Day O’Connor, the First Woman on the Supreme Court and a Plainspoken Westerner, Is Dead at 93

R.I.P.

Appointed to the high court by Ronald Reagan, O’Connor was conservative but never predictable: She became the court’s ultimate swing vote.

"Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor (during Commerce Secy. Barbara Franklin's swear-in)."
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