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...surprised those who worried that he would be a Burger clone, but his move to the left made him perhaps the most vilified Justice in history. Although he would wish to be known for more, Blackmun will largely be remembered for writing the 1973 majority opinion in Roe v. Wade, establishing a woman's right to choose an abortion. He probably set a record for judicial hate mail, 60,000 pieces, calling him everything from the Butcher of Dachau to Pontius Pilate. At a recent speech, he read from one: " 'You are the lowest scum on earth' -- signed...
With Blackmun's departure, the court loses the man who is by most measures its most liberal member. And by one measure, as the author of the abortion- rights ruling, Roe v. Wade, also its most controversial one. The President has promised that any of his Supreme Court appointees will support abortion rights, but Clinton shows no inclination to provoke Republicans by appointing a red-hot liberal such as Harvard law professor Laurence Tribe. A room- temperature nominee is more what he has in mind for a court where power frequently rests with four or five moderate conservatives...
...discern. The centrist bloc that has emerged includes Anthony Kennedy, Sandra Day O'Connor, David Souter and probably the most recent new Justice, Ruth Bader Ginsburg. She is almost certainly a supporter of abortion rights. Since she replaced Byron White, an opponent, the court majority to uphold Roe v. Wade appears secure...
...genetic testing to detect a predisposition to illness or undesirable behavior will challenge the privacy rights of all Americans. Any of those issues could consume the court years from now -- or sooner. At Justice Blackmun's Senate confirmation hearings in 1970 -- just three years before he wrote Roe v. Wade -- no one asked him about abortion...
Justice Harry Blackmun, the U.S. Supreme Court's senior Justice and the author of the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, announced his intention to step down. During his 24 years on the high bench, the 85-year-old Justice -- chosen by Richard Nixon in 1970 -- underwent a highly public evolution from conservative to liberal jurist, becoming one of the court's most passionate defenders of constitutional liberties for ordinary citizens. Retiring Senate majority leader George Mitchell was reported to be near the top of the Clinton list of possible replacements...