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...Harry Blackmun's passionate dissent (joined by William Brennan, Thurgood Marshall and John Paul Stevens) asserted that "only the most willful - blindness could obscure" the connection between sexuality and the right to privacy. "No matter how uncomfortable a certain group may make the majority of this court," wrote Blackmun, that does not justify denying homosexuals the right to privacy. As for constitutional authority, the dissenters relied on the due-process clause and the Fourth Amendment's guarantee of "the right of the people to be secure in their persons (and) houses." Wrote Blackmun: "The right of an individual to conduct...
Associate Justice Harry A. Blackmun '29 will speak to about 450 invited guests about his days as an undergraduate when he rowed crew and sang for the Harvard Glee Club. In addition, President Derek C. Bok and the master of Emmanuel College in Cambridge--which John Harvard attended--will address the dinner guests, said Cristina V. Coletta '87, co-chairman of the celebration...
Moreover, White seems to forget that sodomy laws forbid oral and anal sex between heterosexual couples as well as homosexual ones. In a dissenting opinion, Associate Justice Harry Blackmun scolds White for an "almost obsessive focus on homosexual activity." Of course, this obsession is no small coincidence. There is little chance that a case of heterosexual sodomy would ever make its way to the courts since Americans do not disapprove of sodomy between heterosexuals. We can therefore rest assured that only homosexuals will have their bedrooms raided by local police...
...today's rulings, Brennan was joined by Justices Thurgood Marshall, Harry A. Blackmun, Lewis F. Powell, John Paul Stevens and Sandra Day O'Connor...
...that women have a right to abortion. "This court has moved into areas the Warren Court never came near," says American University Law Professor Herman Schwartz. Yet when it moved, it was typically with a lumbering tread, tilting and veering with the shifts of the Justices at its center: Blackmun, Powell, Stevens, White and the late Potter Stewart. The Burger era may be remembered as one in which the centrists played the crucial role as swing votes in a court that was always swaying. But durable voting blocs were hard to forge among Justices who faced the divisive task...