The Chicago Tribune
by Dahleen Glanton
April 27, 2013

Retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor hasn't given much thought to which was the most important case she helped decide during her 25 years on the bench. But she has no doubt which was the most controversial.

It was Bush v. Gore, which ended the Florida recount and decided the 2000 presidential election.

Looking back, O'Connor said, she isn't sure the high court should have taken the case.

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http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2013-...sh-v-high-court

Yawning, yawning, yawning

O'Connor was one of those lightweights who gets appointed periodically on a Patti Page scholarship ["How much is that doggy in the window"]. She used the phrase "Life unworthy of life" in at least one speech since she retired. I usually only come across that phrase in 1930s Germany.