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Sarah thanks for your comments, but I do think you are a scholar. And, I do appreciate the compliment, “What I don't quite take away from your post is whether you think her style was a good thing or a bad thing.” My essay was to be of a scholarly approach too. It was not indented to express my opinion. But, I do stand by my original thesis. “It is disingenuous to claim Justice Sandra Day O’Connor as just the first female Supreme Court Justice with the amazing impact she left upon the Court and America.”
Sandra Day O’Connor rose through the ranks of the Arizona Republican Party, and supported Ronald Reagan for President. These two factors may have led to positioning her as a conservative. It is always difficult to label an independent

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