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...favoring legislative settlement of conflicts. This year, at least, it has made no real landmark decisions, and law professors tend to judge it harshly. "The court is without leadership." says the University of Chicago's Philip Kurland. "It's run by a five-man center" (Stewart, White, Blackmun, Powell and Stevens). The University of Virginia's A.E. Dick Howard agrees: "None of the central five has an overriding judicial philosophy. They decide cases as they come." Adds Yale's Bruce Ackerman: "A sweeping moral vision guiding the nation? It's just not something...
...dissent from the decision of the majority was angry, even bitter. Justice Harry Blackmun, who wrote the landmark 1973 decision, assailed the ruling as "disingenuous and alarming, almost reminiscent of 'Let them eat cake.'" Departing from Chief Justice Warren Burger, his "Minnesota twin," Blackmun roundly scolded his colleagues: "There is another world 'out there,' the existence of which the court, I suspect, either chooses to ignore or fears to recognize. And so the cancer of poverty will continue to grow." Justice Thurgood Marshall charged that the court's decision would "brutally coerce poor women...
...right to be his own lawyer. Ruling in Faretta v. California, which concerned a man convicted of auto theft after his plea to defend himself had been denied, the high court said that Anthony Faretta should be retried and given the option of representing himself. Dissenting Justice Harry Blackmun grumbled that the ruling "bestows a constitutional right on one to make a fool of himself," alluding to the old proverb, "Anyone who is his own lawyer has a fool for a client...
...most cases, however, Justice Blackmun's warning seems to be justified. Defendants often convict themselves, and in a variety of ways...
...told him we had met with Justice Harry Blackmun of the Supreme Court, a Minnesotan. "Yes, he's a good man," Mondale responded...