The Four Justices: Justice Sandra Day O'Connor
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ก.ย. 2024
- Justice Sandra Day O'Connor was interviewed by Jan Smith, for the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery. Justice O'Connor is depicted in the "The Four Justices" painting by artist Nelson Shanks, along with Justices Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
On October 28, 2013, the National Portrait Gallery celebrated the arrival of Nelson Shanks’s "The Four Justices," a tribute to the four female justices who have served on the U.S. Supreme Court. The work is monumental; it measures approximately seven feet by five-and-a-half feet (in its custom-made frame it is almost nine-and-a-half feet by eight feet) and holds the west wall of the National Historic Landmark Building’s second-floor rotunda. Of the work, NPG Chief Curator Brandon Fortune noted, “The National Portrait Gallery is honored to have such an ambitious group portrait on loan to the museum.”
The work is based on sittings the justices had with Shanks; the two senior justices are seated and the recent appointees standing. Although the logistics of bringing three active and one retired justice into his studio was challenging, Shanks prefers to draw from life, which he feels brings each sitter’s distinct presence into his work. “If you can imagine a painting-no matter how facile-that doesn’t show character, something is missing,” Shanks noted in an interview with NPG. “Representation of character is really what counts to me.”
Only men had sat on the bench of the Supreme Court until President Ronald Reagan appointed Sandra Day O’Connor in 1981. After O’Connor, the next woman to receive an appointment was Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a nominee of President Bill Clinton in 1993. President Barack Obama appointed Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan. Ginsburg, Sotomayor, and Kagan are still on the bench; O’Connor retired in 2006.
Shanks’s oil on canvas painting is on loan to the National Portrait Gallery from Ian and Annette Cumming; they have also loaned their portrait of mezzo-soprano Denyce Graves by Shanks to NPG. Shanks is also responsible for two presidential portraits in the Portrait Gallery’s permanent collection: one of President Reagan created in 1989, and one of President Clinton painted in 2005.
You did a great Job and paved the Way! Thank You so muchJustice O'Conner. You are a personal hero of mine.God Bless.
So very impressive. Why does it take us so very long to realize our biases hinder the progress of society and never serve to maintain it? How assuring that such a fine person as Justice Sandra Day O´Connor reached the heights and in doing so, paved the way for other women and others generally, to follow.
What a trail blazer! Thanks for all you have done Justice O’Connor.
She was a conservative Justice.
Chahine Bin Saleh So? Also the first female Supreme Court justice.
@@CrownCityLife i don't care
Chahine Bin Saleh Me either, have a nice day!
@@chahinebinsaleh6954 as a liberal, it doesn’t matter. She was a Trail blazer and just because one might agree with her, doesn’t mean she is not accomplished.
Justice O’Conner is a trail blazer. You are a wonderful person.
Sandra's Day O'Conner was a highly respected states woman...hard working and a born leader.
O’Connor’s shoulders must have been very very heavy...To show America that a woman are as capable as men. Crazy...
Justice O’Conner , Thank you for protecting rights of women.
She was the very best, all others can dream! Fantastic. No one like her in every way.
Being in a exclusive and committed relationship with a man is not having your cake and eating it to. I request that someone explain that theory as well as explain why people are allowed to commit crimes to take things that don't belong to them. Request to submit this statement to the US Supreme Court.
Woman are far more capable of excelling not only in a career but they can also handle raising a family !
Who else is here for online class?
Mrs Guinsburg was a brilliant mind, a living legend. During her long life, she's been through some hard stuff, but she never played anything down, she never wavered, she told the truth. She stood for human rights. The rights of all the American people. Regardless of who they are. In one word: She stood for justice. I guess that's what our president had in mind when he said truthfully:« She was an amazing woman, whether you agree or not.»th-cam.com/video/24QKYig1prU/w-d-xo.html
I don't think you have any idea of what the role of Supreme Court Justice is.
It's not to fight for rights in their subjective opinion, it's not to make up the law as they see fir. Their only job is to interpret the law being written by the legislator accurately.
So if you think that she stood for human rights, then she is a horrible Supreme Court Justice, a sell-out. Because her vision of human right is her opinion and isn't based on the process of Democracy.
She is an amazing woman, but a horrible Justice and a bad role model for all judges.
Like Scalia said, Ruth is correct about most things, except the important things, like how to read the law.
@@markarmage3776 Always remember this: When the law was written, it had been intended to mean men and should continue to refer only to men.Women were not "qualified persons". Is this, in 2021, your interpretation of democracy?
I would have appreciated if her answers weren’t solely focused on feminism. “What was your most important contribution?” - “Allowing more women to serve as Justices;” “What are the basics in civics that everybody should know?” - “That women are just as capable of participating in government as men;” etc. Don’t get me wrong- that was an essential part of her experience, but it brands her as not a Justice but as a female Justice. I believe there’s more to her career than her gender.
If you were the first at doing something as huge as this, you would understand. It’s OK that you don’t understand.
O'Connor is a brilliant jurist... However, her jurisprudence was absolutely inconsistent. She was all over the place with no legitimate judicial philosophy.
Isn't that a bit of an oxymoron?
That’s called being a moderate
Yup. Case by case.
Opinion by Opinion.
Ya leave yer guns at the Door👍
Partisanship is our great curse. We too readily assume that everything has two sides and that it is our duty to be on one or the other.
James Harvey Robinson
“No legitimate judicial philosophy” and what makes a judicial philosophy “legitimate?” What makes a TH-cam keyboard warrior’s judgement superior to that of a seasoned jurist?
Nice Lady. Lousy Judge.
It's called "Justice" O'Connor.
Not judge ...
Goddam, no wunder everthang so farcussied up....