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The lives they lived and the court they shaped: Remembering those we lost in 2022

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This spring, after POLITICO published a draft opinion of Dobbs and revealed that the court was poised to overturn Roe , Beckwith praised the leak. In court papers, she was identified only as “L.C.”. Four years later, her case reached the Supreme Court. Cecilia Marshall (July 20, 1928 – Nov.

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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. Pivotal role at the center of the court During her nearly quarter-century as a justice, O’Connor wrote 645 opinions. Wade , the court’s landmark 1973 opinion establishing a fundamental right to an abortion.

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