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SCOTUS_OConnor_votes.appHeader = "SUPREME COURT | Justice O’Connor’s swing vote clout";
SCOTUS_OConnor_votes.appDeck = "Here are six major Supreme Court cases decided by a 5 to 4 vote in which Justice Sandra Day O’Connor was the deciding vote. Her successor could shift the high court toward a different outcome on these issues, if the court decides to re-hear similar cases in the future:";
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SCOTUS_OConnor_votes[i-1].body = "Stenberg v Carhart (2000)
O’Connor joined the liberal wing (justices Breyer, Stevens, Souter, and Ginsburg) as the court overturned a Nebraska law that banned a particular abortion procedure known as “partial birth abortion.” Since then, Congress has enacted a ban on the procedure; that law seems destined to go to the Supreme Court to decide its fate.";
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SCOTUS_OConnor_votes[i-1].body = "Veith v. Jubelirer (2004)
O’Connor joined the more conservative justices, Chief Justice Rehnquist, Scalia, Thomas and Kennedy in ruling that the high court can not decide claims of political gerrymandering, the drawing of congressional or state legislative district lines to put political adversaries at a disadvantage. If politics is the motive in re-drawing district lines, the court will let the gerrymandering stand.";
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SCOTUS_OConnor_votes[i-1].body = "McCreary County v. ACLU of Kentucky (2005)
The court held that two Kentucky counties could not display copies of the Ten Commandments in their courtrooms because the displays had a predominantly religious purpose and the First Amendment requires government to remain neutral toward religion. O’Connor joined the more liberal justices: Breyer, Stevens, Souter, and Ginsburg.";
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SCOTUS_OConnor_votes[i-1].body = "Zelman v. Simmons-Harris (2002)
The court OK’d a school voucher program set up by the state of Ohio for low-income parents in which most of the participants sent their children to religiously affiliated schools. The court held this program did not endorse religion nor did it provide direct aid to religious schools, therefore it was not a violation of the First Amendment. O’Connor voted with the more conservative wing, Chief Justice Rehnquist and justices Scalia, Kennedy, and Thomas.";
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SCOTUS_OConnor_votes[i-1].body = "Grutter v. Bollinger (2003)
In an opinion written by O’Connor and joined by the more liberal justices (Breyer, Stevens, Souter, and Ginsburg), the court held that the University of Michigan Law School could use racial preferences to award seats to blacks, Latinos, and Indians in its incoming class, because there were educational benefits in having a student body with a “critical mass” of minorities in it. Racial preferences must be limited in time, O’Connor said. She predicted that in 25 years they would no longer be needed.";
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SCOTUS_OConnor_votes[i-1].body = "Tennessee v. Lane (2004)
The court decided that a paraplegic could sue a state for violating his rights under the Americans with Disabilities Act – even though states are normally immune to lawsuits under the Eleventh Amendment to the Constitution. The paraplegic, George Lane, had to crawl up two flights of stairs to get to the courtroom to answer criminal charges. O’Connor voted with the liberal wing: Stevens, Souter, Ginsburg, and Breyer.";
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