Blackmun

[blak-muhn]

noun

1. Harry A(ndrew), 1908–1999, U.S. jurist: associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1970–94.

Example Sentences

For his refusal to let Kentucky restart what the late Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun once called “the machinery of death” and for the political courage it took to do that, Andy Beshear may rightly be called an anti–death penalty hero.

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Wade decision was drafted by Justice Harry Blackmun, a Nixon appointee.

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But gone also are the judicial giants — men like William Brennan and Harry Blackmun — who were nominated by presidents of the opposing political party.

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That system, what Justice Harry Blackmun once called “the machinery of death,” makes it possible to speak and act as inhumanely as Lumpkin did.

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In Blackmun’s words, it “lessens us all.”

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