Roberts Calls O’Connor ‘A Towering Figure In The History Of The United States’ And World

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In response to retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor’s announcement that she’d been diagnosed with dementia, which she said was “probably Alzheimer’s disease,” Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts said in a statement Tuesday that “no illness or condition can take away the inspiration she provides for those who will follow the many paths she has blazed.

Read Roberts’ statement below:

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