Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor recently announced that she was withdrawing from public life because she has been diagnosed with dementia. NPR’s Legal Affairs Correspondent Nina Totenberg was already covering the court and its justices when in 1981, O'Connor was the first woman nominated to the country's high court. She joins us with her reflections on O'Connor's legacy on the Supreme Court and beyond.
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