More Female Justices May Not Change the Outcome of Cases

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WASHINGTON - At least once a term for 13 years, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg recalled, some lawyer arguing before the Supreme Court would mistake her for Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, or vice versa.

No matter that Brooklyn-born Ginsburg and O'Connor, raised on a ranch in Arizona, look and sound nothing alike.

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More Female Justices May Not Change the Outcome of Cases

The confusion arose because, even at the dawn of the 21st century, women on the court were "one- or two-at-a-time curiosities," Ginsburg said.

So she considered it progress that no one made that error after Sonia Sotomayor became a Sup...

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