FYI - the late Chief Justice's name is spelled Rehnquist, not Rhenquist.

Check this out: http://www.theweeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/013/252orqto.asp

Ginsburg - your male colleagues have certain sensitivities you lack, lady.

(And I can say this, because I watched both my grandparents die of Alzheimers, and if they don't hop on a cure quick, I'll probably die from it as well.)

I would not have left the court for this. Not with Bush in office. I know it's brutal, but her husband doesn't know who she is, anyway, so why bother leaving the court? If I were in her husband's position, I wouldn't have wanted my wife leaving the court for this. I've made it abundantly clear to my husband: if this happens to me, stick me in a nursing home and go get on with your life. There is no point in putting yourself through an emotional wringer for someone who can't even appreciate your sacrifice.

This country needs her far more than her husband does.

But the Newsweek story about the O'Connors did just that. Anyone who has gone through this, or fears that this might be in their family's future, can sympathize with the enormous change in the ex-judge's life. As to how she's dealing with it - well, it's called "family values," and this is a shining example of that much-abused term.

God Bless You, Justice O'Connor and Family!

I've read that she has been quoted as saying she quit while she could still be assured NOT to be replaced in a Dem admin...

Now that's all pretty soft....as information goes.

She has all the money in the world...easy full time nannies for husb....So circumstances don't fly.

That's a bit firmer for ...actual fact.

I'd love to get all THAT sorted out.

In the meantime, I don't trust this story from a source I usually do trust.

Sandra Day O'Connor's purported reason for retiring doesn't make sense to me.

If she was able to bring her Alzheimer-suffering husband to work with her (a perk very few of us have) and she didn't retire when he was clearly a responsibility for her, why would she retire once he was placed into a full-time care facility?

If anything, once he was placed in a nursing home, she no longer had to take him to work with her or attend to him constantly and could re-focus on her career.