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Mar 4, 1999 · WASHINGTON, March 4 (JTA) — Harry Blackmun may best be remembered for authoring the historic 1973 decision legalizing abortion, but his defense of religious liberties stands as no less...
May 28, 2009 · After the Senate rejected his first two choices (Clement Haynsworth and G. Harrold Carswell), Nixon settled on Harry Blackmun, a Methodist and longtime friend of Chief Justice Warren Burger....
Apr 7, 1994 · Justice Harry Blackmun’s retirement later this year from the Supreme Court means that the Jewish community will lose a strong supporter of abortion rights, religious liberties and...
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There were no Jewish Supreme Court justices until President Woodrow Wilson nominated Louis Brandeis to the bench in 1916. By then, Brandeis was already a well-known legal scholar called “the people’s lawyer” for his antitrust work. His 1908 brief in defense of an Oregon law that limited women’s workdays to 10 hours helped convince the normally pro-...
In 1932, President Herbert Hoover named the second Jewish justice – Benjamin N. Cardozo, the chief judge of the New York Court of Appeals. For most of the 1930s, the Supreme Court had two Jewish justices. Both got the antisemitic cold shoulder from Justice McReynolds, who refused to speak to either one of them. After Cardozo died in 1938, President...
Jewish justices were trailblazers for much of the 20thcentury, and Frankfurter was the first justice to hire an Asian-American clerk, back in 1948. But there were limits to his open-mindedness. In 1960, a Harvard Law School dean, Albert Sachs, recommended Ginsburg as a law clerk to Frankfurter – but the justice said he wasn’t ready to hire a woman....
Nov 12, 2011 · Stephen G. Breyer. Harry Andrew Blackmun believed he had little control over where life took him, yet with meticulous attention and his eccentric personality he carved his influential place on the Supreme Court. Blackmun was born on November 12, 1908 to Theo and Corwin Blackmun. Growing up in St. Paul, Minnesota, where his father owned a small ...
Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun addressed a dinner of the American Jewish Committee during their meeting in Washington, DC. After being awarded the committee's American Liberties...
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Justice Blackmun’s support for affirmative action flows from a deep understanding of the persistence of racism. Dissenting from the Court’s invalidation of a minority business development program, he referred to “those who have suffered the pains of economic discrimination in the construction trades for so long.”
