It’s been quite a week of news for the Supreme Court. From CNN.com about 10a Eastern:<\/p>\n
“Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, the first woman appointed to the Supreme Court and a key swing vote on issues such as abortion and the death penalty, said today she is retiring. O’Connor, 75, said she will leave before the start of the court’s next term in October, or when the Senate confirms her successor. “It has been a great privilege indeed to have served as a member of the court for 24 terms,” O’Connor wrote in her resignation letter.”<\/p>\n
CNN.com – Sandra Day O’Connor leaving Supreme Court – Jul 1, 2005<\/a><\/p>\n She was a desenting voice in the recent eminent domain decision and had written a very critical response to the decision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It’s been quite a week of news for the Supreme Court. From CNN.com about 10a Eastern: “Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, the first woman appointed to the Supreme Court and a key swing vote on issues such as abortion and the death penalty, said today she is retiring. O’Connor, 75, said she will leave before the … Continue reading Sandra Day O’Connor leaving Supreme Court<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.suneagleclan.com\/secondmesa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.suneagleclan.com\/secondmesa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.suneagleclan.com\/secondmesa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suneagleclan.com\/secondmesa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suneagleclan.com\/secondmesa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.suneagleclan.com\/secondmesa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.suneagleclan.com\/secondmesa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suneagleclan.com\/secondmesa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suneagleclan.com\/secondmesa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}