#court

Justice Ginsburg is a very competent justice, and it is a joy to have her on the court, but particularly for me it is a pleasure to have a second woman on the court. ↗

— Sandra Day O'Connor

#court #her #joy #justice #me

Most high courts in other nations do not have discretion, such as we enjoy, in selecting the cases that the high court reviews. Our court is virtually alone in the amount of discretion it has. ↗

— Sandra Day O'Connor

#amount #cases #court #courts #discretion

My sense is that jurists from other nations around the world understand that our court occupies a very special place in the American system, and that the court is rather well regarded in comparison, perhaps, to their own. ↗

— Sandra Day O'Connor

#around #comparison #court #nations #occupies

The courts of this country should not be the places where resolution of disputes begins. They should be the places where the disputes end after alternative methods of resolving disputes have been considered and tried. ↗

— Sandra Day O'Connor

#alternative #been #begins #considered #country

The fact is, we are a nine-member court that sits on cases. ↗

— Sandra Day O'Connor

#court #fact #sits

The members of the court were just delighted to have a ninth member - male or female. They were all kind and welcoming. ↗

— Sandra Day O'Connor

#delighted #female #just #kind #male

The power I exert on the court depends on the power of my arguments, not on my gender. ↗

— Sandra Day O'Connor

#depends #exert #gender #i #power

There was no hostility at the court when I arrived. ↗

— Sandra Day O'Connor

#court #hostility #i

When I went to law school, which after all was back in the dark ages, we never looked beyond our borders for precedents. As a state court judge, it never would have occurred to me to do so, and when I got to the Supreme Court, it was very much the same. We just didn't do it. ↗

— Sandra Day O'Connor

#ages #back #beyond #borders #court

Yes, I will bring the understanding of a woman to the Court, but I doubt that alone will affect my decisions. ↗

— Sandra Day O'Connor

#alone #bring #court #decisions #doubt