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...alone in thinking that it may be presently disposed to overrule Roe. "I think there's a very distinct possibility that it will -- this term," said Justice Harry Blackmun in September. According to the man who wrote the embattled decision, "you can count the votes." Four Justices -- William Rehnquist, Antonin Scalia, Sandra Day O'Connor and Byron White -- are believed to be against Roe. Speculation centers on the possible fifth and deciding vote, that of the newest Justice, Anthony Kennedy. Kennedy's record is conservative but presents few clues to his leaning on this issue...
...representative for Supreme Court Justice Antonin G. Scalia, a 1960 Law School graduate, said "I'm sure he would not care to comment...
Supreme Court justices have judged the moot court "for as long as I can remember," Robbins said. Recent justice to come to Harvard include Antonin J. Scalia HLS '60, Harry A. Blackmun '29, Law School graduate of 1932, and William H. Rehnquist, who earned a master's degree at Harvard...
...NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, argued against overturning Runyon by stressing that it had become a "significant part of the web of congressional and judicial efforts to rid the country of public and private discrimination." Surprisingly, when Manhattan attorney Roger Kaplan argued to overturn the ruling, conservative Justice Antonin Scalia, who had voted to rehear the case, asked from the bench, "Let's concede that ((Runyon)) is wrong. So what? What's special about this case to require us to go back and change our decision?" When Kaplan answered that the 1976 ruling "intruded on the operation of Congress...
Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall can be "sullen and at times overbearing," though he listens "objectively." His benchmate John Paul Stevens is a "maverick." Byron White writes in a manner that is "hard to understand." But far more irritating is the behavior of Reagan Appointee Antonin Scalia, who "asks far too many questions ((and)) takes over the case from the counsel." Even Sandra Day O'Connor, herself a dogged questioner, has become "exasperated" by Scalia...