As she explained to Parade magazine, 'We have a complex system of government.

In 2006, she launched iCivics, an online civics education venture aimed at middle school students. O'Connor didn't slow down in her retirement. Monroe County Board of Education that ruled the school board in question was indeed responsible for protecting a fifth-grade student from unwanted advances from another student. In 1999, O'Connor sided with the majority opinion in the sexual harassment case Davis v. In a majority opinion coauthored with Anthony Kennedy and David Souter, O'Connor broke away from the dissents penned by William Rehnquist and Antonin Scalia. Casey (1992) to uphold the court's earlier decision. Wade decision on abortion rights, O'Connor provided the vote needed in Planned Parenthood v. Hogan, in which the court ruled 5-4 that a state nursing school had to admit men after traditionally having been a women's-only institution. In opposition to the Republican call to reverse the Roe v. In 1982, she wrote the majority opinion in Mississippi University for Women v. Accomplishments as a Supreme Court JusticeĪs a member of the country's highest court, O'Connor was considered to be a moderate conservative, who tended to vote in line with the Republican platform, although at times broke from its ideology. O'Connor often focused on the letter of law and voted for what she believed best fit the intentions of the U.S.

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