Well, I’ll readily confess to succumbing to my first impression (differing from yours) on my initial quick read.
I cannot calibrate her allegiance to LBJ-grade liberalism versus “modern” (aka flaming) Marxist liberalism, nor can I resolve how she regards her “sacred duty” to her office. I’m just not that close of a follower.
The question for me for all these libs is just whether they are out and out vicious vandals seeking self-(or Dem-party) aggrandizement over all other considerations or if they really are erstwhile innocent albeit shortsighted & naive fools who think they are helping the little people & cleaning up our rivers with their nonsense.
Anyone notice that letting women into the SCOTUS hasn’t improved the quality of the institution any?
Anyone who’s read ‘Men in Black’, by Levin will know that the bar wasn’t exactly high.
They’ve managed to lower it. All of them, including, and probably especially, O’Connor.