Annual Timeline

2006

Justice Sandra Day O'Connor

In 2006, Justice O'Connor was serving as an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court.

Calendar year 2006 included the U.S. Supreme Court terms 2005 and 2006.

Justice O'Connor wrote 1 Supreme Court opinion and gave 12 speeches or interviews during the year.

January

1

Coverage - Law review article

A Good Judge, by Craig Joyce

1

Coverage - Law review article

In Praise of Contextuality: Justice O'Connor and the Establishment Clause, by Marie A. Failinger

1

Coverage - Law review article

Justice O'Connor's Twenty-Five Year Expectation: The Legitimacy of Durational Limits in Grutter, by Joel K. Goldstein

1

Coverage - Law review article

Justice Sandra Day O’Connor: The Framers’ “First Woman”, by Deborah Jones Merritt

1

Law review article

Remembering Rehnquist

1

Coverage - Law review article

The Federalism Decisions of Justices Rehnquist and O'Connor: Is Half a Loaf Enough?, by Richard A. Epstein

1

Coverage - Law review article

Tribute to Justice O'Connor, by John Paul Stevens

1

Coverage - Law review article

In-Version, by John K. Setear

1

Coverage - Law review article

Justice Sandra Day O'Connor: No Insurmountable Hurdles, by Scott Bales

2

Coverage - Law review article

The Constitutional Jurisprudence of Sandra Day O'Connor: A Refusal to ‘Foreclose the Unanticipated’, by Wilson Ray Huhn

17

Supreme Court Opinion

Ayotte v. Planned Parenthood of Northern New Eng

31

Event

Steps down as Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. Begins to serve as a visiting judge at U.S. Circuit Courts around the country, maintaining chambers at the Supreme Court and continuing to hire law clerks

1

Coverage - Law review article

Ideologue or Pragmatist: Sandra Day O'Connor's Views on Abortion Rights, by Stewart Jay

1

Coverage - Law review article

Judges Struck by Lightning: Some Observations on the Politics of Recent Supreme Court Appointments, by L.A. Powe

1

Coverage - Law review article

Justice O'Connor's Approach to Tax Cases: Could She Have Led the Court Toward a More Collaborative Role for the Judiciary in the Development of Tax Law?, by Myron C. Grauer

1

Coverage - Law review article

Justice O'Connor and ‘The Threat to Judicial Independence’: The Cowgirl Who Cried Wolf?, by Arthur D. Hellman

1

Coverage - Law review article

Justice Sandra Day O'Connor's Friends, by Ruth Colker

1

Coverage - Law review article

Some Reflections on Imperfection, by Martin D. Ginsburg

1

Coverage - Law review article

The Deregulatory Valence of Justice O'Connor's Federalism, by Bradley W. Joondeph

1

Coverage - Law review article

The Future of Religious Pluralism: Justice O'Connor and the Establishment Clause, by Deborah Jones Merritt

February

1

Event

First meeting held to plan the relocation of the historic O'Connor House (Barbara Barrett, Gay Wray, and Justice and John O'Connor meet to discuss the fate of the O'Connor family home, a sun-dried adobe brick house which was slated for demolition by its new owner.)

1

Coverage - Law review article

Justice O'Connor and the ‘Right to Die’: Constitutional Promises Unfulfilled, by Michael P. Allen

March

1

Coverage - Book

Sandra Day O'Connor: Justice in the Balance (Women's Biography Series), by Ann Carey McFeatters

1

Coverage - Law review article

Afterword, Lazy B and the Nation’s Court: Pragmatism in the Service of Principle, by Craig Joyce

1

Coverage - Law review article

A Tribute to Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, by Ruth Bader Ginsburg

1

Coverage - Law review article

A Tribute to Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, by Stephen G. Breyer

1

Coverage - Law review article

A Tribute to Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, by Ruth V. McGregor

1

Coverage - Law review article

A Tribute to Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, by Glen D. Nager

1

Coverage - Law review article

A Tribute to Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, by Kathleen Sullivan

6

Speech

Acceptance speech for the National Association of Women Judges' Lifetime Achievement Award

6

Award

Receives Life Time Achievement Award from The National Association of Women Judges Association

8

Speech

Speech at the National Women's History Month Celebration

10

Coverage - Radio appearance

"O'Connor Decries Republican Attacks on Courts", by Nina Totenberg

17

Law review article / Speech

"Response" (The Legacy of Chief Justice Rehnquist and Justice O'Connor)

25

Newspaper article

"Not By Math Alone"

26

Event

Turns 76 years old

April

1

Coverage - Law review article

Justice O'Connor and the Rule of Law, by Eric J. Segall

1

Coverage - Law review article

O’Connor’s Copyright Legacy, by Matthew K. Dames

1

Coverage - Law review article

Problems with Minimalism, by Cass R. Sunstein

1

Coverage - Law review article

The Assumptions of Federalism, by Erwin Chemerinsky

1

Coverage - Law review article

William Rehnquist and Sandra Day O'Connor: An Expression of Appreciation, by Anthony M. Kennedy

1

Coverage - Law review article

A Wise Justice, and a Great Boss, by Michelle T. Friedland

17

Speech

Speech to the Campaign for the Civic Mission of Schools

September

1

Law review article / Speech

Fair and Independent Courts

1

Coverage - Law review article

Impeachment Calls and Death Threats: Assessing Criticisms of the Death Penalty Jurisprudence of Justices Kennedy and O'Connor, by Susan Raeker-Jordan

19

Honorary Degree

Receives honorary Doctor of Laws from Elon University School of Law

27

Op ed

"The Threat to Judicial Independence"

28

Speech / Law review article

Speech on judicial independence at Georgetown University

December

6

Speech

Remarks on the release of the Iraq Study Group Report

6

Interview / TV appearance

Interview on "Hardball with Chris Matthews"