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Saturday, October 07, 2006


O'Connor to hear Second Circuit cases
Ned Mulcahy at 3:17 PM ET


[JURIST] Former US Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor [OYEZ profile; JURIST news archive] will be one of three justices on a panel hearing cases next week for the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit [official website]. Under federal law [28 US Code § 294], current or former federal judges can decide cases for any equal or lower federal court by special appointment. O'Connor is scheduled to hear five cases while serving on the appeals court.

The appointment comes as no great surprise. O'Connor has thusfar been very active in her retirement, which was effective in January. She has spoken out several times against judicial intimidation [JURIST report] in the course of championing judicial independence in speeches and op-eds. She is also following in the footsteps of other retired Supreme Court justices who later sat on other courts for a time after leaving the national bench; Thurgood Marshall sat on the Second Circuit for a week in 1992, and after his retirement in 1957 Stanley F. Reed [OYEZ profile] - the last Supreme Court justice not to have a formal law degree - often sat on the US Court of Claims. AP has more.

(My apologies if this has already been posted.)

My gut reaction to this is anger. She was a swing vote.
I thought she retired to take care of her husband.

I agree Pie.

She "quit" to be with her husband and leave DC.

Now she is back...

Supreme Court is for life, she should have remained and taken a year off...
it is obvious now Bush shoved her out...or brought her out...of course she was one of the terrible 5...

And she is. Hearing 5 cases .. is a mere nothing compared to what she was doing. I don't see why the anger in someone doing something that takes a few weeks on versus the time the Supreme Court took from her. Also this in in NY where she lives.

..They will consider five cases, including one criminal, one bankruptcy and three civil in nature

Cmon, maybe a week or two. I hardly see this as a betrayal.. more as something to keep her own mind stimulated.

Terra, you make sense, in as far as you take it. But I just get angry that she left under bush, who then gave us Alito in her place. It is generally assumed that Supreme Court Justices serve for life. That being said, the situation with her husband was a rare one. I am just angry about the situation in general.

first off, she had to go to Ari. to be with her husband, not NY

Second, she betrayed herself, America and her vows when she voted illegally to stop the recount after the first 7 to 2 vote to go back to Florida.

She will forever be considered trash to be tossed out because of that. A permanent stain in the American book. With her day of reckoning still to come.
(Just like Rehnquist, who had his painful end...)

Ouchies.

She does have her husband with her, I saw him at a conference with her on c-span the other night.

The rest, I'll leave the judgements to you regarding reckoning's..

Guess her husband doesn't need the warm Arizona air either(or Wyoming or whereever he was going out)

As it is now cold and getting colder in NY, guess all of a sudden the heat reminds her too much of her final resting place? Which is where she can go for all I care after 12/12/2000.

Hope she is enjoying the millions in slush funds she must have gotten
to quit.

Too bad a whole big stink isn't made of this, to show the entire nation
what it is she did.

Let's not forget all the times O'Connor's swing vote went in "our" favor.
I certainly do not wish her ill will- she did give 24 years (?) of her life to SCOTUS.

g4a,

May God judge you as generously as you do others!