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William Rehnquist Proposed to Sandra Day O'Connor When They Were in Their 20s

Their having dated in law school was well-known, but the proposal was not.

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Nina Totenberg (NPR) reports, based on a discovery by Evan Thomas, whose biography of Justice O'Connor (First) is set to be published in March 2019. Now that is a fun fact for you.

Eugene Volokh is the Gary T. Schwartz Distinguished Professor of Law at UCLA and a Visiting Fellow (Senior Fellow starting May 2024) at the Hoover Institution (Stanford). Naturally, his posts here (like the opinions of the other bloggers) are his own, and not endorsed by any educational institution.