Warren E. Burger
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May 12, 2024 · On May 12, 1970, the U.S. Senate finally confirmed Harry Blackmun to the Supreme Court, ending a 391-day-long effort to replace Abe Fortas on the bench. Fortas had been nominated to the Supreme Court by his close friend, President Lyndon Johnson, and then confirmed by the Senate in 1965.
May 6, 2024 · Connecticut, which had to do with contraception) was written by the other member of the "Minnesota twins," Harry Blackmun. It was absurd on its face, and it handed a destructive social-policy win to the Left, whose totalitarian impulse is always to nationalize every issue and, literally, make everything a federal case.
May 8, 2024 · The social power and magnitude of abortion as a political issue have long stood in almost comic contrast to the quiet personality of the author of Roe v. Wade. 1 Justice Harry A. Blackmun–once described as “the shy person’s justice”2- wrote one of the most dramatic and far-reaching decisions in American constitutional history.
Apr 29, 2024 · In 1973, when the Supreme Court decided Roe, Justice Harry Blackmun, in his majority opinion, contrasted this early history with more recent state restrictions.
- Emily Bazelon
6 days ago · When Justice Harry Blackmun wrote the Roe v. Wade decision, he said, “If this suggestion of personhood is established, the appellant’s case, of course, collapses, for the fetus’ right to ...
Apr 27, 2024 · Byron White. Thurgood Marshall. Harry Blackmun. Lewis F. Powell. William H. Rehnquist. The only two reliable liberals on the Court were Marshall and Brennan, but the conservatives were more moderate and less doctrinaire than today’s SCOTUS majority.
Apr 26, 2024 · It requires that a “judge can dance the sword dance; that he can justify an obvious result without stepping on either blade of opposing fallacies.” Justice Harry Blackmun expressed the motivations for reaching compromise with colleagues in writing opinions.
