Sandra Day O’Connor brought political savvy and a pioneering spirit to the Supreme Court
By Joan Biskupic, CNN Senior Supreme Court Analyst (CNN) — A decade before she would become a historic first, Sandra Day O’Connor wanted the president to name a woman to the US Supreme Court. And she let the White House know. It was 1971 and then-Arizona state Sen. O’Connor wrote to President Richard Nixon telling him, “It
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