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...Blackmun, appointed to the Supreme Court by Richard M. Nixon in 1970, may be most noted for writing the majority opinion in Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1972 case that legalized abortion...
Although Nixon appointed Blackmun because the thought the justice would bolster the Court's conserving wing, Blackmun eventually came to be considered perhaps the court's staunchest liberal...
Even this term, Blackmun, 85, was still making news on the Court. Citing years of torment over the issue, Blackmun announced that he opposed the death, penalty, calling it cruel and unusual punishment...
Asumma cum laude graduate in math, Blackmun later graduated from Harvard Law School...
...Blackmun announced earlier this year that he will retire from the nation's highest court at the end of this term. Judge Stephen G. Breyer of Boston has been nominated to replace him. Bennett L. Carter