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Evan Thomas

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How the Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor Helped Preserve Abortion Rights

When Ronald Reagan nominated Sandra Day O’Connor to be the first woman on the Supreme Court, her views on abortion became a source of intense speculation.

by Evan Thomas via The New Yorker on March 27, 2019

Road to Surrender: Three Men and the Countdown to the End of World War Two

First: Sandra Day O'Connor

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Rubble in the aftermath of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima

Big Six v. Little Boy: The Unnecessary Bomb

A new book's insistence that the bomb was necessary to bring about Japan’s surrender is largely contradicted by its own evidence.

by Andrew Cockburn via London Review of Books on November 15, 2023

Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruther Bader Ginsburg speaking at the Congrsssional Women's Caucus.

The First and Last of Her Kind

The legal academy has grown dismissive of Justice O’Connor, but the Supreme Court is not a law school faculty workshop. She saw herself as a problem-solver.

by Linda Greenhouse via New York Review of Books on October 17, 2019

Pro choice protestor with "My Mind My Body My Choice" poster

The Supreme Court Decision That Defined Abortion Rights for Thirty Years

The centrist, compromising view of reproductive rights in Planned Parenthood v. Casey helped clear the path to overturn Roe v. Wade.

by Jessica Winter via The New Yorker on June 25, 2022

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