We Respect Each Other, Not Just Our Intelligences

When santro de o'connor joined the court in 19 80, she reinstituted the tradition of having lunch together after every court argument and every court conference. She would come down to your office sit in a chair opposite you and say, no, you can't do that. But i think it might have helped some that she was a woman, but i think it may have helped more that she was in politics before she migt te was,. I suspect that a gathering the herd in the legislature was more difficult than gathering the herd among supreme court justices.