Casting the deciding vote in the Supreme Court’s 2000 decision marks Sandra Day O’Conner’s career | Democracy, elections and voting at Democracy Chronicles

Should Yogi Berra’s long baseball career be judged by his error in a crucial 1951 game that deprived the New York Yankees’ Allie Reynolds of a no-hitter against the Boston Red Sox? Or Dustin Hoffman’s long film career by the 1987 cinematic bomb known as Ishtar? Of course not. But what about judging the long judicial…