Blackmun
[ blak-muhn ]
/ ˈblæk mən /
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noun
Harry A(ndrew), 1908–1999, U.S. jurist: associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1970–94.
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In Greenhouse’s telling, it was Justices William Brennan and Thurgood Marshall who urged viability as the court’s standard, to which Blackmun eventually agreed.
Murphy reports that Justice Harry Blackmun wrote “screams” in the margins of a Ninogram he had received.