U.S. Supreme Court
O’Connor Corrects Jon Stewart in Daily Show Appearance (See the Video Clips)
Posted Mar 4, 2009, 09:04 am CST
By Debra Cassens Weiss
Screen shot of O'Connor with Jon Stewart.
Retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor is making the rounds on two network shows, and one of them is Comedy Central.
O’Connor appeared yesterday on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, appearing relaxed and doing “a pretty good job riffing with Stewart,” according to Florida International law professor Howard Wasserman, writing at PrawfsBlawg. He pronounced her interview “quite good.”
Wasserman says O’Connor has always seemed a bit “self-serious”; during the interview she corrected Stewart to explain the U.S. Supreme Court has oral arguments rather than trials and she objected to his use of the term “swing justice.”
Stewart corrected himself, calling O’Connor the "most principled justice," and she answered, “Much better.”
Today O’Connor appeared on Good Morning America, referring to judges—those on American Idol—to emphasize the need for civics instruction in schools, ABC News reports. "Only a third of Americans can name the three branches of government. That's scary," O’Connor said. "But 75 percent of kids can tell you American Idol judges."
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