When she retired in 2006, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor lamented that her successor Samuel Alito Jr. did not wear a skirt. In an interview last week with The National Law Journal, O’Connor said that, with a new vacancy on the Court, most people are “expecting and indeed hoping” that the next appointee will be a woman. “There was a little backsliding when I left.”
O’Connor, 79, also spoke about the departure of Justice David Souter, with whom she served on the Court for 16 years, and about the collapse of civic education nationwide.
