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Dec 2, 2021 · Blackmun was still serving, as the justices asserted in their ruling: “It must be stated at the outset and with clarity that Roe’s essential holding, the holding we reaffirm, has three parts.
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- Joan Biskupic,legal analyst & Supreme Court biographer
New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. Harry Blackmun was the third Minnesotan to serve on the US Supreme Court, after Pierce Butler (associate justice, 1923–1939) and Warren Burger (chief justice, 1969–1986), and he stayed the longest: twenty-four years. He was little known outside legal circles until he wrote the decision in Roe v.
Aug 6, 2023 · Harry Andrew Blackmun (1908–1997) served as an associate justice on the U.S. Supreme Court from 1970 to 1994. He is best known for writing the majority opinion in Roe v. Wade (1973) that overturned most state abortion laws. That decision was built on Griswold v. Connecticut (1965), which formulated a right of privacy based in part on ...
Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun. (AFP) Retired Justice Harry A. Blackmun, author of the historic Roe v. Wade decision that made abortion legal and radically transformed American society and ...
Jun 24, 1999 · U.S. Supreme Court Justice Harry A. Blackmun ’32 died March 4 at age 90. Appointed to the Court in 1970 by President Nixon, he retired in 1994 after a 24-year career on the Court marked by a movement from moderate conservatism to outspoken liberalism.
Mar 5, 1999 · Retired Supreme Court Justice Harry A. Blackmun, who wrote the divisive 1973 opinion that established a woman’s constitutional right to an abortion, died early Thursday at Arlington (Va.) Hos…
Mar 4, 1999 · Justice Harry Blackmun, who died this morning, was a great American citizen. In 24 years on the Supreme Court, Justice Harry Blackmun served with compassion, distinction, and honor. Every decision and every dissent was firmly grounded in the Constitution he revered and his uncanny feel for the human element that lies just beneath the surface of ...
