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To: Dale Baker who wrote (12091)	7/18/2004 2:39:38 PM
From: Thomas M.	Respond to of 20773

THE O'CONNOR FACTOR NEW YORK--"This is terrible," Sandra Day O'Connor said when she heard that Al Gore had won Florida on Election Night 2000. According to Newsweek, O'Connor, then 69, wanted to retire from the Supreme Court. But she wanted to leave under a Republican president so that her seat would go to a fellow Republican. According to court watchers, O'Connor was so eager to retire to her beloved Arizona that she overlooked the constitutional separation of powers by agreeing to hear Bush v. Gore, effectively appointing George W. Bush to the presidency. Both O'Connor and Chief Justice William Rehnquist, 80, were expected to retire during the last three years. Yet now they'll remain in office at least through November 2004. She'll be 73 and he'll be 81. Why haven't they retired? [continued ...] uexpress.com