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...Harry A. Blackmun...
Supreme Court Justice Harry A. Blackmun '29, Former Kirkland House Master Mason Hammond '25 and Yale President Richard C. Levin and six others will receive honorary degrees at this morning's Commencement exercises...
...days between the time Justice Harry Blackmun announced his retirement and the Breyer choice last Friday, Clinton appears to have decided, and then changed his mind, over and over again. Each time, he or his top aides leaked his apparent preference with greater and greater certainty, only to pull back at the last minute. Soon after Clinton's first choice, Senate majority leader George Mitchell, announced that he didn't want the job, debates within the Administration turned on whether to seek an appointee who could forge coalitions on a divided court or to find a suitable black, Hispanic...
Though he is presumed to support abortion rights, for instance, Breyer seems unlikely to defend them as vigorously as Blackmun, who wrote Roe v. Wade. In 1990 Breyer rejected a Bush Administration "gag rule" that would have prevented the staff at federally supported family-planning clinics from even mentioning abortion. But a year earlier he dissented from a ruling that . granted a new hearing on the burdens imposed by a law requiring that minors notify both parents before undergoing an abortion. Accordingly, abortion- rights groups are viewing him with some trepidation...
Ending weeks of intense speculation, President Clinton on Friday nominated Boston Federal Appeals Judge Stephen Breyer to succeed retiring Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun. Breyer, a former chief counsel of the Senate Judiciary Committee, drew immediate praise from key Republicans and Democrats in the Senate for his brilliance, moderation and consensus-building skills. He was passed over last time in favor of Ruth Bader Ginsburg...