Today in Supreme Court History: September 21, 1981

9/21/1981: Justice Sandra Day O'Connor is confirmed by the Senate, 99-0.

Justice Sandra Day O'Connor

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[Moderation4ever]

Justice Sandra Day O'Connor was a class act before, during and after her years on the US Supreme Court. People will point to her as the first woman appointed to SCOTUS. It should also be noted that she was the last justice to have serve in elected office. That experience of running for office gave her as much diversity as being a woman. She seemed to know both the law and to understand the impact of the Courts ruling. Something that might be missing today.

[AmosArch]

I heard a story that she wanted to retire sooner but didn't want a liberal to take her place which I can totally respect.

[kimoser22]

Is it impossible for a justice to be confirmed 99-0 ever again? How long and how much would have to change for that to happen?

[Frank Drackman]

Who was the one Prick who didn't vote??

[F.D. Wolf]

Three of President Reagan's four Court appointees were confirmed unanimously by the Senate: Sandra Day O'Connor (99-0), Antonin Scalia (98-0), and Anthony Kennedy (97-0), the last nominees to date to be unanimously confirmed. Reagan, of course, also made the last nomination to date to be formally rejected by the Senate, Robert Bork (42-58).

The rejection of Bork was immediately followed by the unanimous confirmation of Kennedy. The Senate's last previous rejection of a nominee, President Nixon's nomination of G. Harrold Carswell (45-51) was likewise followed immediately by the unanimous confirmation of Harry Blackmun (94-0).

[dk061292]

Reagan said he'll appoint a woman to court. He did. No complaints from conservatives. Biden said he will appoint a Black woman, and he does, and all hell breaks loose. Turns out, Republicans actually like DEI when it advances their political interests.

[wvattorney13]

https://www.upi.com/Archives/1981/07/08/Reagan-nomination-outrages-allies-pleases-critics/7676363412800/

Conservatives were upset. The NOW, Planned Parenthood, and Teddy Kennedy were all in support.

[not guilty]

Thurgood Marshall, Sandra Day O'Connor, Clarence Toady, Sonia Sotomayor, Amy Coney Bear It and Ketanji Brown Jackson have all been affirmative action nominees to at least some extent. The disparity in their respective resumes, however, is remarkable.

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