"Disappointed"

That's how Sandra Day O'Connor apparently feels about the Court under Justice Roberts.  Here's how Nina Totenberg recalled O'Connor's weekend remarks at William & Mary: 

She referred to some of her opinions as, quote, "being dismantled," by the current court under Chief Justice Roberts. Since her retirement, the court has backed away from some decisions in which she, sort of, brokered a consensus - on campaign finance, on abortion, on affirmative action. And asked how she felt about the court, that and this court, she responded, well what would you feel? I'd be a little disappointed, she said. If you think you've been helpful and then it's dismantled, you think, oh, dear. But life goes on, she said. It's not always positive.

-Kathleen Bergin

Comments

[Robert]

Interestingly enough, disappointed is how I feel when I read most of her opinions.

[Kathy Bergin]

Now that's funny!

[anon]

Although she had a reputation for being a consensus builder, her opinions were built on flimsy reasoning. That might be a natural consequences of getting people with various viewpoints to agree on a single outcome. Nonetheless, many of her opinions are hard to defend on analytical grounds. (Is it really the case that affirmative action is all of a sudden unconstitutional in 20 years? Doesn't make any sense. . .)