Sandra Day O' Connor

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The atrticle Sandra’s Day was written by Ramesh Ponnuru and published in the National Review this year during the month of June. The National Review is a Conservative weekly journal of opinions and focuses mostly on the American Political scene. Ramesh Ponnuru is a Senior Editor for National Review, where he covers national politics. He has also written for the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Financial Times, Newsday, Washington Times, and other publications.
Sandra Day O’Connor was the first woman ever to be appointed as an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court. O’Connor was the right woman at the right moment. To offset criticism of his opposition to the Equal Rights Amendment in 1980, Reagan promised to appoint the fist woman to the Supreme Court. During O’Connor’s first year on the Court, she made it clear she was a conservative. Although showing some signs of moving toward the center, O’Connor has most often voted with Rehnquist and Burger. Time Magazine labeled her William H. Rehnquist’s “Arizona twin”. In her first term the two voted together on twenty-seven of he thirty-one decisions decided by 5-4 votes.
As stated, the article was published in The National Review. I didn’t particularly agree with the way the article was written. I felt it could have written in a better fashion and upon further research I found many examples. I felt this article isn’t for someone whom is unfamiliar with politics, but for someone is up to date with politics, who is interested in politics, and has a great understanding of it’s concepts. Therefore, the article was a bit difficult to understand. Upon further research I found a striking resemblance in all the articles I read. The only difference, were the terms that were used, and how it was written. The articles online were much easier to read, they were in layman’s terms and straight forward, unlike Ponnuru’s article. I came to the ...