Blackmun
Americannoun
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Wade decision was drafted by Justice Harry Blackmun, a Nixon appointee.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 23, 2024
Siegelman and Bentley did not go as far as Powell, Blackmun, or Stevens in condemning capital punishment.
From Slate • May 31, 2023
But Blackmun failed to deliver on that promise or persuade others to join him.
From Slate • May 31, 2023
That winter, however, Blackmun was recovering from surgery and said he hadn’t immersed himself in the case materials, growing irritated when Brennan asked about Bakke.
From New York Times • Feb. 15, 2023
Supreme Court Justice Harry A. Blackmun in 1994, nearly twenty years after he had voted for its reinstatement.
From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt
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