Each of us brings to our job, whatever it is, our lifetime of experience and our values.
Sandra Day O'ConnorApparently a great many people have forgotten that the framers of our Constitution went to such great effort to create an independent judicial branch that would not be subject to retaliation by either the executive branch or the legislative branch because of some decision made by those judges.
Sandra Day O'ConnorThe unhappy persistence of both the practice and the lingering effects of racial discrimination ...is an unfortunate reality...and the government is not disqualified from acting in response to it.
Sandra Day O'ConnorEach justice hires their own clerks, and applications are made individually to the justices. It isn't a group decision.
Sandra Day O'Connor