During the nearly five years since she took her place on the high bench, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor has provided a reasonably dependable third vote for the U.S. Supreme Court's conservative wing. In a number of crucial cases, however, O'Connor has begun to split from her usual allies, Chief Justice Warren Burger and William Rehnquist, and has sometimes cast the decisive vote that yields a liberal result. Says Michael McDonald, general counsel of the conservative American Legal Foundation: "I wonder if she is traveling the route blazed by Justice Blackmun." Harry Blackmun, who moved from a close identification with the Chief...
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