Sandra Day O’Connor
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Sep 19, 2026
Dahlia LithwickHOST
One of the things that is being tangibly harmed are the turtles.
Dahlia LithwickHOST
And I was struck by it only because I know you clerked for Justice O'Connor, who was a huge fan of the turtles built into the lampposts in the courtyard of the building.
Sam SankarGUEST
Yeah, that's right.
Sam SankarGUEST
I hadn't thought of that connection.
Chuck GrassleySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
In 2004, the Supreme Court, by a vote of six to three, found that an American citizen named Hamdi captured on the battlefield in Afghanistan and detained in the U.S. had a right to petition for writ of habeas corpus to challenge detention.
Chuck GrassleySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
But a plurality of the court, in opinion by Justice O'Connor, also held that the president had the authority to detain Hamdi because Congress had passed an authorization for the use of military force following the 9-11 attacks.
Chuck GrassleySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And the Hamdi plurality recognized that tension for the duration of the conflict was part of the longstanding law of war principles.
Chuck GrassleySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Justice O'Connor's opinion also made no distinction based upon an individual citizen's finding that, quote, There is no bar to this nation holding one of its own citizens as an enemy combatant."
Jennifer BrineyHOST
So the Supreme Court said that U.S. citizens could be labeled as enemy combatants, but that we get to challenge that in court.
Jennifer BrineyHOST
As I told you earlier, it was this decision that led to the George W. Bush administration creating those bullshit tribunals to make it look like we were meaningfully able to challenge our enemy combatant status, a system that President Obama eliminated the first chance he got.
Dahlia LithwickHOST
One of the things that is being tangibly harmed are the turtles.
Dahlia LithwickHOST
And I was struck by it only because I know you clerked for Justice O'Connor, who was a huge fan of the turtles built into the lampposts in the courtyard of the building.
Dahlia LithwickHOST
Yeah,
Sam SankarGUEST
that's right.
Dahlia LithwickHOST
One of the things that is being tangibly harmed are the turtles.
Dahlia LithwickHOST
And I was struck by it only because I know you clerked for Justice O'Connor, who was a huge fan of the turtles built into the lampposts in the courtyard of the building.
Sam SankarGUEST
Yeah, that's right.
Sam SankarGUEST
I hadn't thought of that connection.
John AughenbaughHOST
And as Nia alluded to a few moments ago, he was also being considered in 2005... to be a justice on the United States Supreme Court, okay? Because again, for our younger listeners, there were two vacancies that occurred on the Supreme Court in 2005.
John AughenbaughHOST
Sandra Day O'Connor announced she was going to retire so she could take care of her ailing husband.
John AughenbaughHOST
And then a few months later, Chief Justice Rehnquist dies from esophageal cancer.
John AughenbaughHOST
So now there's two vacancies, right? Right.
Ellie SavittGUEST
I led the city's lawsuits against the opioid industry, led the right to literacy lawsuit for the city of Detroit on behalf of Detroit school children.
Ellie SavittGUEST
I started my legal career working on the U.S. Supreme Court for the late Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sandra Day O'Connor.
Ellie SavittGUEST
But, you know, perhaps most importantly, I started my actual career as an eighth grade U.S. history teacher.
Ellie SavittGUEST
I taught special education and general education classes.
Rick GreenHOST
We got so many tests on what the freedom of religion is or when you violate that or when the establishment clauses.
Rick GreenHOST
I mean, Sandra Day O'Connor had her three part test, then her four part test and her five part.
Rick GreenHOST
I mean, everybody's got all their tests.
Rick GreenHOST
Right.
NikitaHOST
People have strong feelings about him.
NikitaHOST
We'll get into that a little bit, okay? Justice Scalia is joined by Justices Rehnquist, O'Connor, Kennedy, Souter, Thomas, and Breyer.
NikitaHOST
I also have very strong feelings about Justice Thomas, but that is also for another day.
NikitaHOST
And a dissent is written by Justice Stevens, and he is joined by our Lord and Savior, Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Kris CollinsHOST
And in 1991, the Supreme Court struck the statute down, and not one justice dissented.
Kris CollinsHOST
And Justice Sandra Day O'Connor wrote, quote, "A statute is presumptively inconsistent with the First Amendment if it imposes financial burden on speakers because of the content of their speech." Unquote.
Kris CollinsHOST
So the trouble was that the law reached any book in which a writer owned up to a crime, whether or not anybody had ever charged him with it.
Kris CollinsHOST
And by that standard, the court said, it would have taken the money from St. Augustine, Henry David Thoreau, and Malcolm X.
Rich RubinHOST
So, do people even send telegrams anymore? And here's a fun fact.
Rich RubinHOST
My dad got a telegram from Sandra Day O'Connor on his 60th birthday or his 70th birthday.
Rich RubinHOST
One of his birthdays, he got a telegram from Sandra Day O'Connor.
Rich RubinHOST
She was a judge in his district when he was a practicing attorney before she became a Supreme Court justice.
Rich RubinHOST
And they ran in the same circles.
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