Sandra Day O'Connor Quotes About Politics
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We hold that the reckless disregard for human life implicit in knowingly engaging in criminal activity known to carry a grave risk of death represents a highly culpable mental state that may be taken into account in making a capital sentencing judgment not inevitable, lethal result.
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My hope is that 10 years from now, after I've been across the street at work for a while, they'll all be glad they gave me that wonderful vote.
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It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren.
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It is a measure of the framers' fear that a passing majority might find it expedient to compromise 4th Amendment values that these values were embodied in the Constitution itself.
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Sandra Day O'Connor
- Born: March 26, 1930
- Occupation: Former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
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