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Justice O'Connor deserves little honor
to an "undue burden" on that fundamental constitutional right guaranteed in the landmark case of Roe v. Wade. Justice Harry Blackmun, the author of Roe, disagreed and found the restrictions so harsh as to make it practically impossible for many women to get from Philadelphia Daily News Read more »
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This Day in Liberal Judicial Activism—May 29
to Jan Crawford Greenburg’s Supreme Conflict, Justice Anthony Kennedy writes a note to Justice Harry Blackmun asking to meet him “about some developments in Planned Parenthood v. Casey … [that] should come as welcome news.” The news is that Kennedy is retreating from National Review Online Read more »
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Justice Sotomayor Takes Swing At Famed Baseball Case
Well Paid Slave." In 1972, The U.S. Supreme Court ruled against Flood by a vote of 5-to-3. The decision, written by Justice Harry Blackmun, is widely disrespected today (more on that later). But because Blackmun frankly acknowledged that the court's previous from NPR Read more »
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Gov. Hickenlooper Grants "Reprieve" from Death Penalty to Nathan Dunlap
penalty in law or in practice, largely due to concerns regarding human rights violations. As U.S. Supreme Court Justice Harry A. Blackmun said, "The death penalty experiment has failed." Hickenlooper adds that the death penalty is not a deterrent. I once believed from TalkLeft: The Politics of Crime Read more »
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U.S. Supreme Court Justice says Roe v. Wade shifted momentum away from change
because it was not argued in weighty terms of advancing women’s rights. Rather, the Roe opinion, written by Justice Harry Blackmun, centred on the right to privacy and asserted that it extended to a woman’s decision on whether to end a pregnancy. Four decades from Globe and Mail Read more »
