Conservative Justice O'Connor warns of dangers of "dictatorship"

Newly retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, in a speech to Georgetown University warned that it takes 'a lot of degeneration before a country falls into dictatorship, but we should avoid these ends by avoiding these beginnings.'

She also attacked Republicans who have sought to restrict the judicial branch of government. Pointing to the experiences of developing countries and former communist countries where interference with an independent judiciary has allowed dictatorship to flourish, O’Connor said we must be ever-vigilant against those who would strongarm the judiciary into adopting their preferred policies.

An NPR report on this speech is available HERE.