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Blackmun

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Black·mun  (blkmn), Harry Andrew 1908-1999.
American jurist who was an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1970-1994).


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Wade abortion decision, stating that it required a "hallucinogenic intellectual flight" on the part of Justice Harry Blackmun to draft the opinion.
My gratitude to Barbara Blackmun, Hollis Clayson, Sylvester Ogbechie, Susan Vogel, and Boris Wastiau for their comments on earlier drafts.
Both sides cite federal laws and the rhetoric of civil rights activists to defend their position, be it the modern conservative commitment to legally enforced colorblindness or the modern liberal belief that, in the words of former Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun, "to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race.
 
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