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Sandra Day O’Connor, first woman on the Supreme Court, dies at 93

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One California-based firm, Gibson Dunn, did offer O’Connor a job – as a legal secretary. A “common sense” view of money in politics O’Connor’s stint as a legislator also may have influenced her decision in the 2003 campaign-finance case McConnell v. Just seven years later, Kennedy’s view would prevail. In Citizens United v.

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