[Mb-civic] Practical Voice for Partisan Times - Washington Post

[William Swiggard]

Practical Voice for Partisan Times

By E. J. Dionne Jr.

Saturday, July 2, 2005; Page A29

Barely an hour after Justice Sandra Day O'Connor had announced her 
resignation from the Supreme Court yesterday, the goal of all liberals 
and moderates was clear: To replace the retiring justice, President Bush 
should name someone just like her. From Democratic quarters, you could 
almost hear the orchestrated shouts of "We love Sandra."

It's odd that O'Connor, in an instant, became a liberal hero. In many 
ways, she is the most profoundly conservative justice on the court. Cass 
Sunstein, a law professor at the University of Chicago, noted that she 
is a particular kind of conservative, an implicit follower of the 
philosopher Edmund Burke, "someone who likes tradition, respects 
incremental change, doesn't like revolution."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/01/AR2005070101787.html
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