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Sandra Day O’Connor ..OBama appoint Scalia replacement already

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"109460728"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><h6><b>Sandra Day O&&num;8217&semi;Connor retired from the Supreme Court in 2006&comma; but she continues to impart wisdom off the bench&period;<&sol;b><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h2><span style&equals;"color&colon;blue&semi;"><span style&equals;"font-size&colon;x-large&semi;"><i>&&num;8220&semi;I think we need somebody there to do the job now and let&&num;8217&semi;s get on with it&comma;&&num;8221&semi; <&sol;i><&sol;span><&sol;span><br &sol;>&NewLine;<span style&equals;"color&colon;blue&semi;"><span style&equals;"font-size&colon;x-large&semi;"><i><b><span style&equals;"font-size&colon;small&semi;"><span style&equals;"color&colon;black&semi;">&&num;8211&semi; O&&num;8217&semi;Connor&comma;  first woman appointed to US Supreme Court&period;<&sol;span><&sol;span><&sol;b><&sol;i><&sol;span><&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a name&equals;"more"><&sol;a>Sandra Day O&&num;8217&semi;Connor&comma; the retired Supreme Court justice appointed by a Republican president&comma; said on Wednesday that President Barack Obama should get to name the <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;konnie-moments&period;blogspot&period;com&sol;2016&sol;02&sol;breaking-news-supreme-court-justice&period;html" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank">replacement for the late Justice Antonin Scalia&period;<&sol;a><&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-25466" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;02&sol;hdlns1-scalia&period;jpg" alt&equals;"hdlns1-scalia" width&equals;"960" height&equals;"540" &sol;>O&&num;8217&semi;Connor&comma; in an interview with a Fox affiliate in Phoenix&comma; disagreed with Republican arguments that the next president&comma; and not Obama&comma; should get to fill the high court vacancy&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;I think we need somebody there to do the job now and let&&num;8217&semi;s get on with it&comma;&&num;8221&semi; said O&&num;8217&semi;Connor&comma; the first woman appointed to the Supreme Court&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>O&&num;8217&semi;Connor&comma; 85&comma; agreed it&&num;8217&semi;s unusual for a Supreme Court vacancy to open in an election year&comma; which &&num;8220&semi;creates much talk around the thing that isn&&num;8217&semi;t necessary&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>But she said the president still has an important responsibility to fulfill&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;You just have to pick the best person you can under the circumstances&comma; as the appointing authority must do&comma;&&num;8221&semi; she said&period; &&num;8220&semi;It&&num;8217&semi;s an important position and one that we care about as a nation and as a people&period; And I wish the president will as he makes choices and goes down that line&period; It&&num;8217&semi;s hard&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>President Ronald Reagan&comma; fulfilling a campaign promise to nominate a woman to the high court&comma; appointed O&&num;8217&semi;Connor in 1981&period; For 25 years&comma; she played a mostly centrist&comma; pragmatist role on the bench &&num;8212&semi; often breaking from Republican ideology and siding with Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on women&&num;8217&semi;s issues&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>She stepped down in 2006 to care for her ailing husband and was replaced by Justice Samuel Alito&period; Many legal observers have noted that&comma; had she not retired when she did&comma; the court wouldn&&num;8217&semi;t have shifted rightward so dramatically in the last decade&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;<span style&equals;"font-size&colon;x-small&semi;"><i><br &sol;>&NewLine;<&sol;i><&sol;span><span style&equals;"font-size&colon;x-small&semi;"><i>Courtesy&colon; <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;huffingtonpost&period;com&sol;entry&sol;sandra-day-oconnor-scalia&lowbar;us&lowbar;56c5313be4b0c3c55053c6d9http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;huffingtonpost&period;com&sol;entry&sol;sandra-day-oconnor-scalia&lowbar;us&lowbar;56c5313be4b0c3c55053c6d9" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank">huffpo<&sol;a><&sol;i><&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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