http://dir.salon.com/topics/sandra_day_oconnor/?source=rss&aim=sandra_day_oconnor en-us Copyright 2007 Salon.com. Fri, 09 Feb 2007 13:02:00 PST By Katharine Mieszkowski Fri, 09 Feb 2007 13:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2007/02/09/supreme_court/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2007/02/09/supreme_court/index.html?source=rss Justice Alito thinks so -- in a generation. By Katharine Mieszkowski Fri, 09 Feb 2007 13:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2007/02/05/supreme_court/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2007/02/05/supreme_court/index.html?source=rss And why Ruth Bader Ginsburg doesn't relish being the only woman left serving there. By Sidney Blumenthal Fri, 09 Feb 2007 13:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2006/12/20/bush_war/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2006/12/20/bush_war/index.html?source=rss A battered group of neocons delivered the president his latest war plan, letting him reject the grave warnings of the Iraq Study Group and deny that we're losing the war. By Tim Grieve Fri, 09 Feb 2007 13:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2006/05/04/ginsburg/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2006/05/04/ginsburg/index.html?source=rss The justice pushes back against Republicans' efforts to police the third branch. By Tim Grieve Fri, 09 Feb 2007 13:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2006/03/29/delay/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2006/03/29/delay/index.html?source=rss Christians are persecuted; judges are just dense. By Lynn Harris Fri, 09 Feb 2007 13:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2006/01/18/ayotte_decision/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2006/01/18/ayotte_decision/index.html?source=rss Pro-choicers say todays Ayotte v. Planned Parenthood ruling could be worse. By Sidney Blumenthal Fri, 09 Feb 2007 13:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2006/01/12/alito_bush/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2006/01/12/alito_bush/index.html?source=rss Samuel Alito's Willy Loman facade conceals seething resentments -- and a dangerous belief in unbridled presidential power. By Lynn Harris Fri, 09 Feb 2007 13:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2005/11/30/ayotte_scheidler/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2005/11/30/ayotte_scheidler/index.html?source=rss Questions of parental involvement and clinic harassment could further gut Roe. By Rebecca Traister Fri, 09 Feb 2007 13:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2005/10/27/smeal/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2005/10/27/smeal/index.html?source=rss Feminist Majority's Ellie Smeal weighs in on the Harriet Miers withdrawal. By Tim Grieve Fri, 09 Feb 2007 13:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2005/10/27/abortion/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2005/10/27/abortion/index.html?source=rss O'Connor may get a vote after all in abortion cases looming on the Supreme Court's docket By Tim Grieve Fri, 09 Feb 2007 13:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2005/10/03/miers/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2005/10/03/miers/index.html?source=rss The president selects a loyalist with no prior judicial experience. By T.G. Fri, 09 Feb 2007 13:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2005/09/04/successor/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2005/09/04/successor/index.html?source=rss Bush is said to be considering Roberts as well as Alberto Gonzales and a short list of others. By T.G. Fri, 09 Feb 2007 13:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2005/09/04/rehnquist/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2005/09/04/rehnquist/index.html?source=rss Two months ago, we knew that George W. Bush would have another Supreme Court opening soon. Now, amid Katrina, the news comes as a shock. By Farhad Manjoo Fri, 09 Feb 2007 13:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2005/07/21/whitejudge/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2005/07/21/whitejudge/index.html?source=rss Bush's Roberts pick leaves the high court -- which symbolically represents an entire branch of the federal government -- with only one woman and one racial minority. That's absurd and wrong. By Rebecca Traister Fri, 09 Feb 2007 13:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/07/21/rally/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/07/21/rally/index.html?source=rss Protesters sweat it out in the sweltering Manhattan heat to take their first stand against Bush's Supreme Court nominee. By Tim Grieve Fri, 09 Feb 2007 13:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2005/07/19/dignified/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2005/07/19/dignified/index.html?source=rss Bush's Supreme Court nominee had a rocky road to the court of appeals. By Tim Grieve Fri, 09 Feb 2007 13:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2005/07/19/announcement/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2005/07/19/announcement/index.html?source=rss Bush has made his decision and will announce it at 9 p.m. By Tim Grieve Fri, 09 Feb 2007 13:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2005/07/19/bush/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2005/07/19/bush/index.html?source=rss If the plan was to avert attention from the Plame case, it seems to be working -- more or less. By Tim Grieve Fri, 09 Feb 2007 13:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2005/07/19/sct/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2005/07/19/sct/index.html?source=rss With the polls grim on Rove and Arlen Specter rushing to the White House for a last-minute evening meeting, a nomination could come any minute now. By Tim Grieve Fri, 09 Feb 2007 13:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2005/07/13/perkins/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2005/07/13/perkins/index.html?source=rss The chairman of the Senate Judicary Committee complains about the noise from special interest groups. The Family Research Council is fuming. By Tim Grieve Fri, 09 Feb 2007 13:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2005/07/12/breakfast/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2005/07/12/breakfast/index.html?source=rss The president breaks bread but not news in a meeting with Senate leaders about Sandra Day O'Connor's replacement. By Tim Grieve Fri, 09 Feb 2007 13:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2005/07/11/specter/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2005/07/11/specter/index.html?source=rss The chief justice's retirement is now so widely anticipated now that senators are talking openly about his replacement. Arlen Specter's pick: Sandra Day O'Connor By Tim Grieve Fri, 09 Feb 2007 13:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2005/07/08/rehnquist/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2005/07/08/rehnquist/index.html?source=rss Today? Monday? Next year? Nobody knows for sure, but the White House is making plans for two vacancies on the Supreme Court. By Sidney Blumenthal Fri, 09 Feb 2007 13:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2005/07/07/supreme_court/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2005/07/07/supreme_court/index.html?source=rss With Sandra Day O'Connor's retirement, right-wing Republicans see the opportunity of a lifetime to seize the Supreme Court once and for all. By Tim Grieve Fri, 09 Feb 2007 13:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2005/07/07/reid/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2005/07/07/reid/index.html?source=rss The Senate minority leader says Supreme Court justices would like the president to send them a colleague who hasn't been a judge before.