Volume 53, Number 6 · April 6, 2006
Woman in the Middle
By Anthony Lewis
Sandra Day O'Connor: How the First Woman on the Supreme Court Became Its Most Influential Justice
by Joan Biskupic
Ecco, 419 pp., $26.95
So wrote Robert H. Jackson in The Struggle for Judicial Supremacy, a book written, as he put it, 'in odd intervals between arguments in Court as Solicitor General' between 1938 and 1940. Those years followed the great fight over President Franklin Roosevelt's plan to break a conservative judicial stranglehold on the New Deal by packing the Supreme Court with up to six new members.
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