Sisters in Law (47 page)

250 procedure for abortion providers: Jenny Westberg, “D&X: Grim Technology for Abortion's Older Victims,” LifeAdvocate.org, 1997, http://lifeadvocate .org/arc/dx.htm. Toobin describes the genesis of the movement as coming from an anonymous tip to Douglas Johnson, a lobbyist for the National Right to Life Committee; Jeffrey Toobin,
The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court
(New York: Doubleday, 2007), 155.

250 “partial birth abortion”: Gloria Feldt,
The War on Choice: The Right-Wing Attack on Women's Rights and How to Fight Back
(New York: Bantam Books, 2004), 174.

250 flared up again: Drew Halfmann and Michael P. Young,
“
War Pictures: The Grotesque as a Mobilizing Tactic,”
Mobilization
15 (2010): 1–24, http://sociology.ucdavis.edu/people/halfmann/grotesque.

250 Clinton vetoed the federal laws: “Bill Clinton on Abortion,” OnTheIssues.org,
http://www.ontheissues.org/celeb/Bill_Clinton_Abortion.htm (accessed
November 18, 2014).

250 agreed to review the case:
Stenberg v. Carhart
, 530 U.S. 914 (2000).

251
Casey
afforded women:
Stenberg v. Carhart
, Kennedy dissenting,
http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/
99
-
830
.ZD
2
.html.

251 health of the mother:
Stenberg v. Carhart
, O'Connor concurring,
http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/
99
-
830
.ZC
1
.html.

252 undue-burden test: “Defending the Innocent,”
Washington Times
, November 8, 2003,
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/
2003
/nov/
8
/
200311
08
-
111532
-
9290
r/.

252 modern approach to the Constitution: Jan Crawford Greenburg,
Supreme Conflict: The Inside Story of the Struggle for Control of the United States Supreme Court
(New York: Penguin, 2007), location 830 of 5283 in Kindle edition.

252 one prominent critic put it: Jason DeParle, “In Battle to Pick Next Justice, Right Says, Avoid a Kennedy,”
New York Times
, June 27, 2005, http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/27/politics/27kennedy.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0.

253 found colon cancer: Sheryl Gay Stolberg, “Ginsburg Leaves Hospital; Prognosis on Cancer Is Good,”
New York Times
, September 29, 1999,
http://www.nytimes.com/
1999
/
09
/
29
/us/ginsburg-leaves-hospital-prognosis-on-cancer-is-good.html.

254 Court's session on Monday: Jon Craig, “Ruth Bader Ginsburg Reminisces About Her Time on the Hill,”
Cornell Chronicle
, September 22 and November 16, 2014,
http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/
2014
/
09
/ruth-bader-ginsburg-reminisces-about-her-time-hill.

254 “say no to any ‘extras'”: Ginsburg, letter to Stephen Wiesenfeld, December 6 1999.

254 “shut downs”: Ginsburg, letter to Stephen Wiesenfeld, February 27, 2001.

254 “tough it out”: Ginsburg, letter to Stephen Wiesenfeld, September 24, 2001.

254 the doctors said: Ginsburg, letter to Stephen Wiesenfeld, September 22, 2000.

CHAPTER
17
: JUSTICE O'CONNOR'S SELF-INFLICTED WOUND

255 legendary diplomat Walter Stoessel: The story was apparently first reported by Christopher Hitchens, “Now There Is No Referee Left,”
Evening Standard
(London), December 13, 2000, 13, but gained widespread currency when it appeared in Evan Thomas and Michael Isikoff, “The Truth Behind the Pillars,”
Newsweek
, December 25, 2000, 46.

255
Bush v. Gore
: 531 U.S. 98 (2000).

256 cast into doubt: Jeffrey Toobin,
The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court
(New York: Doubleday, 2007), 187.

256 George Bush in the White House: Ibid., 200.

256 legal commentator Jeffrey Rosen: Jeffrey Rosen, “Disgrace,”
The New Republic
, December 24, 2000,
http://www.newrepublic.com/article/politics/disgrace.

256 described her work in 1993: David M. O'Brien, “Holding the Center: As Thomas and Scalia Stake Out the Far Right, O'Connor Takes the Moral High Ground,”
Los Angeles Times
, March 8, 1992, http://articles.latimes.com/1992-03-08/opinion/op-5987_1_justice-clarence-thomas; David O. Stewart, “Holding the Center—Sandra O'Connor Evolves into Major Force on Supreme Court,”
ABA Journal
79 (1993): 48,
http://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/abaj
79
&div=
61
&id=&page=.

256 “addled and uncertain”: Rosen, “Disgrace.”

256 women's rights—was loaded: Toobin,
The Nine
, 166.

256 such a fine family: David Margolick, “Meet the Supremes,”
New York Times
, September 23, 2007.

257 “good for the Court and for the nation”: O'Connor, letter to Barry Goldwater,
1988, Personal and Political Papers of Senator Barry M. Goldwater, Arizona State University Libraries Arizona Collection.

257 avid observer of electoral politics: Lewis F. Powell, Jr. Archives, Washington and Lee University School of Law, letter from O'Connor with calculation of election predictions, undated; O'Connor, letter to Goldwater, November 1, 1988, Personal and Political Papers of Senator Barry M. Goldwater, Arizona State University Libraries Arizona Collection; Jeffrey Toobin,
Too Close to Call: The Thirty-Six-Day Battle to Decide the
2000
Election
(New York: Random House, 2001), 248.

257 protect the life of a mother: “George W. Bush on Abortion” and “George W. Bush on the Constitution,”
OnTheIssues
,
http://www.ontheissues.org/Celeb/George_W__Bush_Abortion.htm#Supreme_Court_+_Constitution
(accessed November 18, 2014).

257 “partial birth abortion” law: Ibid., citing Sandra Sobieraj, AP article in
Washington Post
, June 28, 2000.

257 “judicial philosophy he defends”: Fred Barnes, “Bush Scalia,”
Weekly Standard
July 5, 1999, http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Protected/Articles/000/000/010/268gdffq.asp.

257 “more to the point the Republican Party”: Toobin,
The Nine
, 165.

257 betting pools on the elections: Ibid., 165.

257 and to the Court: O'Connor, letter to Barry Goldwater, 1988.

257 “It was just outrageous”: Toobin,
Too Close to Call
, 248.

258 O'Connor's tidy standards: Dahleen Glanton, “O'Connor Questions Court's Decision to Take On
Bush v. Gore
,”
Chicago Tribune
, April 27, 2013,
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/
2013
-
04
-
27
/news/ct-met-sandra-day-oconnor-edit-board-
20130
427
_
1
_o-connor-bush-v-high-court.

259 performed or “promoted” abortion: “George W. Bush on Abortion” and “George W. Bush on the Constitution,”
OnTheIssues
, http://www.ontheissues .org/Celeb/George_W__Bush_Abortion.htm#Supreme_Court_+_Constitution (accessed November 18, 2014).

259 budget went down by 20 percent: Alison Motluk, “US Abortion Policy: A Healthy Strategy for Whom?”
New Scientist
, October 6, 2004 (retrieved September 29, 2007).

259 across all the chambers: Michelle Friedland, interview with the author, June 20, 2014.

260 support a black representative:
Easley v. Cromartie
, 532 U.S. 234 (2001),
http://www.oyez.org/cases/
2
000
-
2009
/
2000
/
2000
_
99
_
1864.

260 execution of the retarded:
Atkins v. Virginia
, 536 U.S. 304 (2002), http://www.oyez.org/cases/2000-2009/2001/2001_00_8452/.

260 sodomy laws unconstitutional:
Lawrence v. Texas
, 539 U.S. 558 (2003).

260 affirmative action in college admissions:
Grutter v. Bollinger
, 539 U.S. 306 (2003),
http://www.oyez.org/cases/
200
0
-
2009
/
2002
/
2002
_
02
_
241
/.

260 toward the liberal bloc: David Cole, “The Liberal Legacy of
Bush v. Gore
,”
Georgetown Law Journal
94 (2006): 1427, 1443,
http://www.scotusblog.com/archives/bushvgore-cole.pdf.

260 partisan redistricting:
Vieth v. Jubelirer
, 541 U.S. 267 (2004).

260 right of eminent domain:
Kelo v. City of New London
, 125 S. Ct. 2655 (2005).

260 reining in the death penalty:
Atkins v. Virginia
, 536 U.S. 304, 321 (2002);
Ring v. Arizona
, 536 U.S. 584, 609 (2002).

261
Ferguson v. Charleston
: 532 U.S. 67 (2001).

261 called special needs: Ibid., at 70.

261 drug users for child abuse: Philip J. Hilts, “Hospital Sought Out Prenatal Drug Abuse,”
New York Times
, January 21, 1994, http://www.nytimes.com/1994/01/21/us/hospital-sought-out-prenatal-drug-abuse.html.

261 hospital for race discrimination: Dorothy E. Roberts,
Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty
(New York: Vintage, 1998), 174–75, citing the plaintiffs' filings in the trial court.

263
Nguyen v. INS
:
Tuan Anh Nguyen v. INS
, 533 U.S. 53 (2001), http://supreme .justia.com/cases/federal/us/533/53/case.html.

264 the task of answering Kennedy: Ibid., at 74.

265 federal family-leave law: This was very contentious, four—Stevens, Souter, Breyer, Ginsburg—didn't agree with the premise, but all agreed that FMLA abrogated the immunity. For our purposes, Rehnquist/Kennedy is the interesting view.
Nevada Department of Human Resources
v
.
Hibbs
, 538 U.S. 721 (2003).

265
Jackson v. Birmingham Board of Education
:
Jackson v
. Birmingham Board of Education
, 544 U.S. 167 (2005),
http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/pdf/
02
-
1672
P.ZO.

266 Well, goodness!: Toobin,
The Nine
, 198. O'Connor was asking Gore's lawyer David Boies why the Florida court didn't set a uniform standard for whether a ballot should be included in the count. “For goodness' sake!” she exclaimed impatiently.

266 “It's not always positive”: Rebecca Lowe, “Supremely Confident: The Legacy of Sandra Day O'Connor,” Guardian Legal Network, August 30, 2011,
http://
www.theguardian.com/law/
2011
/aug/
30
/us-supreme-court-george-bush.

267 as she saw it, trapped: Jan Crawford Greenburg,
Supreme Conflict: The Inside Story of the Struggle for Control of the United States Supreme Court
(New York: Penguin, 2007), location 300 of 5283 in Kindle version.

267 two of them went out: Joan Biskupic,
Sandra Day O'Connor: How the First Woman on the Supreme Court Became Its Most Influential Justice
(New York: Harper Perennial, 2006), 324–25.

267 drove O'Connor to retirement: Greenburg,
Supreme Conflict
, location 302 of 5283 in Kindle version.

267 “he's not a woman”: Elisabeth Bumiller, “An Interview by, Not with, the President,”
New York Times
, July 21, 2005,
http://www.nytimes.com/
2005
/
0
7
/
21
/politics/
21
bush.html?pagewanted=all.

268 “Sam” Alito: Greenburg calls him “Sam,”
Supreme Conflict
, location 724.

268 law would now stand:
Gonzales v. Carhart
, 550 U.S. 124 (2007), http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/05-380.ZO.html.

269 “principles of
stare decisis
”: Ibid., emphasis added.

269 “once created and sustained”: Ibid., at page 29 of the draft.

270 “long since discredited”: Ibid., Ginsburg dissenting, at page 18 of the dissent draft.

270 “this would happen again”: Joan Biskupic, “Ginsburg ‘Lonely' without O'Connor,”
USA Today,
January 25, 2007,
http://usatoday
30
.usatoday.com/news/washington/
2007
-
01
-
25
-ginsburg-court_x.htm.

270 “our male colleagues lack”: “Ginsburg Feels Isolated on Court,”
Washington Post
(Associated Press), January 28, 2007,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/
2007
/
01
/
27
/AR
2007012701065
.html.

270 “until she was gone”: Biskupic, “Ginsburg ‘Lonely' without O'Connor.”

CHAPTER
18
: THE GREAT DISSENTER

273 a living legend: Michael Li-Ming Wong, interview with the author, July 17, 2014.