Sandra Day
O’Connor: ‘We Need Somebody There Now’ To Replace Antonin Scalia
by Dr. Susan Berry 18 Feb 2016
Retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra
Day O’Connor says President Obama should quickly nominate a new justice
to replace Justice Antonin Scalia, who was
found dead last Saturday.
O’Connor, 85, who was appointed to the high court by
President Ronald Reagan in 1981, told
Fox 10 in Phoenix she disagreed with Republicans who said nominations to the
high court should wait until after a new president is inaugurated in 2017.
“So when you hear one side saying let’s wait until the
next president is in office, what do you think about that?” Fox 10’s Troy
Hayden asked O’Connor.
“I don’t agree with it,” she replied. “I think we need
somebody there now to do the job, and let’s get on with it.”
One of the names for potential Obama nominees discussed
in the media
has been that of Sri Srinivasan – who clerked for O’Connor.
O’Connor, who was the first woman justice appointed to
the Supreme
Court, retired in 2006 and was replaced by current Justice Samuel Alito – whose nomination then-Sen. Barack Obama filibustered in
the Senate.
In 2009, Obama awarded
O’Connor the Presidential Medal of Freedom – the nation’s highest civilian
honor – in recognition of her accomplishments. O’Connor was considered an
establishment moderate. Despite being a Reagan appointee, she repeatedly voted
in favor of abortion rights and racial preferences, and against free speech and
religious liberty.
Scalia, O’Connor said, “was a remarkable man and a fine
jurist. He had the background and the capacity to do the job magnificently.”
Sandra Day O'Connor
Sandra Day
O'Connor was an associate justice for the U.S. Supreme Court, is a trustee at the National Constitution Center, and the president of the Alfalfa Club.
Note: George H.W. Bush
is the chairman emeritus for the National
Constitution Center, a member of the Alfalfa
Club, and a member of the Burning
Tree Club.
Antonin Scalia was
a member of the Burning Tree Club,
and a guest at the Koch Industries
annual conference.
Koch Industries
is the sponsor for the Koch Industries
annual conference.
David
H. Koch is the EVP for Koch
Industries, and a trustee at the Aspen
Institute (think tank).
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Aspen Institute (think tank),
and the Brookings Institution (think
tank).
George Soros
was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.
Jack
Valenti was a trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank), and a member
of the Burning Tree Club.
Warren Burger was
a member of the Burning Tree Club,
and a justice for the U.S. Supreme Court.
Tom C. Korologos
was a member of
the Burning Tree Club, and married
to Ann McLaughlin Korologos.
Ann
McLaughlin Korologos is married to Tom
C. Korologos, and was the chair emeritus for the Aspen Institute (think
tank).
James S.
Crown is the vice chairman for the Aspen Institute (think tank), and
a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
Lester Crown
was a lifetime trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank), and is a
member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
Commercial Club of
Chicago, Members Directory A-Z (Past Research)
Tuesday, December 17, 2013
R. Eden Martin is
the president of the Commercial Club of
Chicago, and counsel at Sidley
Austin LLP.
Michelle Obama
was a lawyer at Sidley Austin LLP.
Barack
Obama was an intern at Sidley Austin
LLP.
Newton N. Minow is
a senior counsel at Sidley Austin LLP,
and a member of the Commercial Club of
Chicago.
Valerie B. Jarrett
is a member of the Commercial Club of
Chicago, the senior adviser for the Barack
Obama administration, and her great uncle is Vernon E. Jordan Jr.
Cyrus F.
Freidheim Jr. is a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago, and an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank).
Vernon E. Jordan
Jr. is Valerie B.
Jarrett’s great uncle, an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution
(think tank), a
director at the American Friends of Bilderberg (think tank), was a
member of the Iraq Study Group, and
a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).
Sandra Day
O'Connor was a member of the Iraq
Study Group, an associate justice for the U.S. Supreme Court, is a trustee at the National Constitution Center, and the president of the Alfalfa Club.
George H.W. Bush
is the chairman emeritus for the National
Constitution Center, a member of the Alfalfa
Club, a member of the Burning Tree
Club, and a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society.
Samuel
Anthony Alito Jr. is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, and a justice for the U.S. Supreme Court.
Stephen G. Breyer
is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, and a justice for the U.S. Supreme Court.
Ruth Bader
Ginsburg is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, and a justice for the U.S. Supreme Court.
Elena
Kagan is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, and a justice for the U.S. Supreme Court.
Anthony M. Kennedy
is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, and a justice for the U.S. Supreme Court.
Sonia Sotomayor
is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, and a justice for the U.S. Supreme Court.
David Hackett
Souter is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, and was a justice for the U.S. Supreme
Court.
Harry A. Blackmun
was a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, and a justice for the U.S. Supreme Court.
Lewis F. Powell
Jr. was a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, and a justice for the U.S. Supreme Court.
John Paul Stevens
was a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, and a justice for the U.S. Supreme Court.
William Howard
Taft was a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, and the chief justice for the U.S.
Supreme Court.
Byron R. White was
a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, and a justice for the U.S. Supreme Court.
Potter Stewart was
a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, and a justice for the U.S. Supreme Court.
John G. Roberts
Jr. is the chief justice for the U.S. Supreme Court, and an honorary
member of the Robert Trent Jones Golf Club (Gainesville, VA).
Vernon E. Jordan
Jr. is the president emeritus for the Robert Trent Jones Golf
Club (Gainesville, VA), Valerie B. Jarrett’s great uncle, an
honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), a director at the American
Friends of Bilderberg (think tank), was a member of the Iraq Study Group, and a 2008 Bilderberg
conference participant (think tank).
Sandra Day
O'Connor was a member of the Iraq
Study Group, an associate justice for the U.S. Supreme Court, is a trustee at the National Constitution Center, and the president of the Alfalfa Club.
George H.W. Bush
is the chairman emeritus for the National Constitution Center, a member
of the Alfalfa Club, a member of the Burning Tree Club, and a
member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society.
Jeb Bush is the chairman
emeritus for the National Constitution Center, a member of the Alfalfa
Club, the candidate for the 2016 Jeb Bush presidential campaign, and
a director at the Bloomberg Family Foundation.
Michael R.
Bloomberg is the founder of the Bloomberg Family Foundation, and a
member of the Alfalfa Club.
Bloomberg
Family Foundation was a funder for the Aspen Institute (think tank).
David H. Koch is a
trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank), and the EVP for Koch
Industries.
Koch Industries
is the sponsor for the Koch Industries annual conference.
Antonin Scalia was
a guest at the Koch Industries annual conference, and a member of the Burning
Tree Club.
George H.W. Bush
is a member of the Burning Tree Club, the chairman emeritus for the National
Constitution Center, and a member of the Alfalfa Club.
Sandra Day
O'Connor is a trustee at the National
Constitution Center, the president of the Alfalfa Club, and was an associate justice for the U.S. Supreme Court.
Jeb Bush is the chairman
emeritus for the National Constitution Center, a member of the Alfalfa
Club, the candidate for the 2016 Jeb Bush presidential campaign, and
a director at the Bloomberg Family Foundation.
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