By Justice Sandra Day O'Connor
Interview on "The Daily Show" discussing her book, "Out of Order"
March 5, 2013
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Jon Stewart
Nice to see you again. The book is called--
Sandra Day O'Connor
Out of Order .
Jon Stewart
Out of Order . What was your purpose in in this book and putting this particular book together?
Sandra Day O'Connor
Oh, just telling some of the stories about how the Court works and giving people a glimpse into some of the things.
Jon Stewart
It's hard to imagine the pressure that a justice might feel when you're dealing with, as we talked about earlier, some of the biggest issues of our day—
Sandra Day O'Connor
Yes.
Jon Stewart
Of racism and discrimination and—
Sandra Day O'Connor
Yes.
Jon Stewart
The franchise—
Sandra Day O'Connor
Right.
Jon Stewart
Does that weight, do you feel that when you're deciding those cases?
Sandra Day O'Connor
You certainly do, because you really want to make the correct decision and bring some order out of our various statutes and constitutional provisions and the precedents of the Court itself. It's hard sometimes.
Jon Stewart
You wrote, Brown v. Board of Education may be the most important decision.
Sandra Day O'Connor
It was very important to us as a nation.
Jon StewartWhen they made that decision, was it a difficult one, did people feel that they had overreached at that time?
Sandra Day O'Connor
You know, I don't know the feeling of the justices who joined it. But that was a major decision. And many of them are. They affect us for years to come. And you really want to get it properly decided.