From the early 1990s until her retirement in 2005, she was the indisputable swing justice
Sandra Day O’Connor, the first woman to serve on the Supreme Court and the justice who held the court’s center for more than a generation, died Friday, the court said in a statement.
Her cause of death was complications related to advanced dementia and a respiratory illness. She was 93.
Chief Justice John Roberts said in a statement that O’Connor “blazed an historic trail as our nation’s first female justice.”
For all the good RBG did I will forever blame her for the current state of SCOTUS. Had she retired under Obama Roe V Wade would likely not have been repealed. It would have been 4-4 and Roberts being the “decider” would likely have ruled it was settled law.
Just my 2¢