![]() Image by Embajada de los Estados Unidos en Uruguay from Montevideo, Uruguay- Wikimedia She was also the co-chair of the National Advisory Board at the National Institute for Civil Discourse, an institute she helped found after the shooting of former congresswoman Gabby Giffords in 2011. She founded Sandra Day O’Connor Institute, a nonprofit organization that deals with civic engagement, civic education, and promoting civil discourse. O’Connor has also served in the national constitution center as a board member and later transitioned into trustee emeritus for the center The website also included interactive games. O’Connor is a philanthropistĪfter her retirement, she launched a website now known as Icivics where she would teach students about how the United States government worked after realizing that a lot of young Americans did not understand how the government worked. ![]() She however allowed for some limits to it. Sandra O’Connor did not strike down most restrictions on abortion during her tenure. – Wikimediaĭespite her conservative nature, her views on abortion were widely known which was one of the reasons some conservatives were against her appointment to the supreme court as they suspected she would not be able to overturn the Roe vs Wade case the supreme court and they were not wrong. Image by Steve Petteway, photographer for the Supreme Court of the United States. From left to right: Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, (Ret.), Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg & Justice Elena Kagan.
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