Justice O’Connor’s Parting Dissents Highlighted the Twin Perils of Local Tyranny and Federal Overreach

 Justice O’Connor’s Parting Dissents Highlighted the Twin Perils of Local Tyranny and Federal Overreach

The month before Justice Sandra Day O’Connor announced her retirement in 2005, she dissented from Supreme Court decisions in two cases that illustrated the twin perils of local tyranny and federal ov…