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Jun 24, 2009
'I'm very happy we're getting another woman on the court'
09:19
Some Republican senators, such as Alabama's Jeff Sessions, are still raising tough questions about Sonia Sotomayor, but the first woman on the Supreme Court has nothing but good things to say about President Obama's choice for the nation's next justice.
"I'm very happy we're getting another woman on the court, very," retired justice Sandra Day O'Connor said last night in an appearance on the CBS Late Show with David Letterman. O'Connor went on to note, "Our nearest neighbor is Canada, and Canada has also a nine-member Supreme Court. Their chief justice is a woman, and four of the justices are female in Canada. And they manage pretty well."
That's pretty emphatic praise for a Democratic nominee, considering that O'Connor was put on the top court by a Republican icon, President Ronald Reagan.