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Washington (AFP) - US President Joe Biden on Saturday hailed late Supreme Court justice Sandra Day O'Connor as an "American icon," paying tribute to the first woman to serve on the nation's highest court and her decades of public service. "Justice Sandra Day O'Connor was an American icon," Biden said in a statement. "I did not agree with all of her opinions, but I admired her decency and unwavering devotion to the facts, to our country, to active citizenship and the common good." He was a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee that voted unanimously to confirm O'Connor's appointment to the S...
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Washington (AFP) - Retired US Supreme Court justice Sandra Day O'Connor, the first woman appointed to the nation's highest court and a noted pragmatist in an age of deep division, died Friday. She was 93. O'Connor died at her home in Phoenix, Arizona, of complications related to advanced dementia and a respiratory illness, the court announced. "Sandra Day O'Connor blazed an historic trail as our nation's first female justice," Chief Justice John Roberts said. "She met that challenge with undaunted determination, indisputable ability and engaging candor," Roberts said. "We celebrate her endurin...
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Washington (AFP) - Sandra Day O'Connor, the first woman to serve as a justice on the US Supreme Court, wielded enormous influence as the key centrist on a sharply divided bench, where she often displayed a preference for pragmatism over ideology. Once spoken of as the most powerful woman in America, O'Connor often confounded both her critics and supporters during her nearly 25-year tenure on the nation's high court, refusing to be pigeonholed by the left or the right. It was her refusal to be placed on either side of the political spectrum, or to be seen as merely the one woman on the bench, t...
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