arizona state senator Recently Rejected The state’s proposal is to commission a copy of the late Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor’s code to be placed in Statuary Hall at the U.S. Capitol, according to multiple reports.
According to the Arizona Mirror, state Rep. Alexander Kolodin (R) said earlier this week, “When a prominent member of this institution enters here in the morning, he has to go through the pain of walking past these obscure jurists.” We cannot allow this to happen,” he said, according to the Arizona Mirror. It was to be located in Washington, D.C., rather than the Arizona State Capitol.
O’Connor, the first female judge to sit on the nation’s highest court, died in early December at the age of 93. She was also a swing vote in many of the court’s biggest cases.
Current and former Supreme Court justices remembered her for blazing a “historic path” and making “history.”
“Sandra Day O’Connor, a daughter of the American Southwest, blazed a historic path as our nation’s first female judge, Chief Justice John Roberts wrote after the news broke.” He rose to the challenge with absolute determination, unarguable ability, and charming candor.”
Mr. O’Connor was born in Texas and raised in Arizona, and served in all three branches of government in the Grand Canyon State before being elected to the high court. She died in her home state of “progressive dementia, possibly Alzheimer’s disease, and complications related to a respiratory disease,” according to the Supreme Court.
Another Arizona congressman, Neil Carter (R), brought up his distaste for the late Supreme Court justice when another anonymous judge called O’Connor “the worst thing to happen to the Union.” I remembered that. Bench,” local media reported.
“We believe that we should respect people, things and institutions based on their achievements, not just because they are from this state,” Carter said, according to the Mirror.
The Hill reached out to Reps. Carter and Kolodin.
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