solicitor general – remarked that the Supreme Court “now is going to be just as conservative or just as liberal as Justice Kennedy.” Since Kennedy’s retirement, Chief Justice John Roberts appears to be the “swing justice” (or, as political scientist and statistician Adam Feldman puts it, the “ anchor justice”): Roberts was in the majority 97% of the time during the 2019-20 term. Her legacy lives on in the many areas described below and through the Sandra Day O'Connor Institute, which she founded in 2009 with a mission to advance civil discourse, civic engagement, and civics education. Indeed, after O’Connor’s retirement, Paul Clement – then the U.S. Justice O'Connor is a peerless trailblazer who has left a lasting impact on the history of the United States. For over a decade, after the retirement of Justice Sandra Day O’Connor in 2006 until his own retirement in 2018, Justice Anthony Kennedy was universally regarded as the swing justice. Of course, neither OConnor nor Ginsburg graduated law school with a visible. It is part of SCOTUSblog’s 2020 Election Litigation Tracker, a joint project with Election Law at Ohio State.Īlthough the justices themselves reportedly dislike the label, the term “swing justice” is often used to refer to the justice in the ideological center of the Supreme Court, who may align with either his more conservative or more liberal colleagues to provide the key vote in closely divided cases. Liberalism suited her perfectly for her future role as a crusading lawyer. a majority decision she regarded as either too conservative or too liberal. She most frequently sided with the Court's conservative bloc, having the swing opinion in many decisions. This election explainer was written by Amy Howe. Justice Sandra Day OConnor, who joined the Supreme Court as the first woman. Retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day OConnor attended the groundbreaking of Arizona State Laws new campus, and even shoveled some dirt in honor of the. Sandra Day O'Connor (born March 26, 1930) is a retired Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, who served from her 1981 appointment by President Ronald Reagan until her retirement in 2006.
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