....As a retired judge, O'Connor maintains an office at the Supreme Court, still draws a salary and fills in as a judge on the federal appeals courts.
O'Connor also recently served on the 10-member bipartisan
Iraq Study Group and said she was surprised when the GOP leader of the panel, former Secretary of State James A. Baker III, asked her to serve on the group.
"I wasn't sure I should do it," she said. "It was so out of my field of judging. I don't know anything about the military."
While O'Connor called the assignment fascinating, she declined to say how she felt after
President Bush declined to embrace the group's call for a gradual troop pullout and more aggressive regional diplomacy.
"There are probably no perfect answers," she said.http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070204/ap_on_go_su_co/scotus_o_connor