There are an awful lot of cases in which O'Connor was the fifth justice in a liberal direction even though she basically had a fairly conservative record. That is why liberals are so particularly worried because replacing her with somebody who is fairly conservative could put a lot of those 5-4 rulings in jeopardy.

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