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Rehnquist, Scalia and Thomas Cited Foreign Law
Here’s an interesting discovery by Rick Pildes, law professor at New York University, posted on Balkinization.
Turns out Justice O’Connor wrote an opinion in 1998, joined by her conservative colleagues William Rehnquist, Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas, that cited as persuasive an aspect of foreign law, notwithstanding Republicans’ strong objections to the idea that foreign law [...]
Justice O’Connor Was Influenced by ‘the Perspective of a Woman’ Too
While Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor’s being pilloried on the right for a 2001 speech in which she said her race and gender inevitably impact her judgments, it turns out retired Justice Sandra Day O’Connor said much the same thing, Greg Sargent reports.
In an interview with Ladies Home Journal that Sargent unearthed, O’Connor — who [...]
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