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Whether or not the court agrees to hear this particular case, Lee is not 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...
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...
Says who? Why the Justices' very own colleague Harry Blackmun. It was not the first time the outspoken Nixon appointee chose to ignore custom by critiquing the court. While Blackmun, 79, had some favorable remarks at a judicial conference in St. Louis, he outdid himself with sharp words about individual Justices. What especially seems to upset Blackmun, however, is the tendency of President Reagan's appointees to vote as a conservative bloc. "All the appointees of the present Administration are voting one way," he complained. "When I started, we tried to just be good judges...
When the decision came down last week, however, the result was less clear cut. Four Justices -- Blackmun, Brennan, Marshall and Stevens -- ruled that the constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment forbids capital punishment for any offenders who committed their crimes before reaching 16. Three others -- Rehnquist, Scalia and White -- said the Constitution posed no such barrier. Justice Kennedy did not participate...