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What to know about Sandra Day O'Connor, the Supreme Court's first female justice

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  • Reliability

    55% ReliableAverage

  • Policy Leaning

    -8% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    1% Positive

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : She helped write the majority opinion in Planned Parenthood v. Casey, the 1992 decision that protected national abortion access that was first established decades prior with Roe v. Wade.
52% : The precedent set by O'Connor and the 2003 Court was overturned this summer when the Supreme Court struck down affirmative action policies at Harvard University and the University of North Carolina.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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