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...Distinctions between the Harvard College program and the University of California at Davis program were discussed in some detail in Bakke. Justice [Harry A.] Blackmun ['29] wrote that, while he saw the advantages of the Harvard program, he was not convinced that the difference between the two was 'very profound or constitutionally significant...
Burger was in many ways a walking contradiction, a gregarious loner. He showed up at social events all over the capital, but he had few intimates. When Nixon named another Minnesotan, Harry A. Blackmun, to the high court and Blackmun wondered whether he was up to the job, Burger thundered, "Of course you are. Harry, you and I have been preparing all of our lives for these jobs. We are as good as the rest of them...
Other Class Day speakers at the Law School have included Attorney General Janet Reno, who received her LL.B. from Harvard Law School in 1963 and Supreme Court Justice Harry A. Blackmun '29, who received his LL.B. from Harvard Law school...
...Supreme Court decision was not unanimous. Justice Harry Blackmun, in a dissent dear to champions of the rights of mentally impaired defendants, wrote that ``a defendant who is utterly incapable of conducting his own defense cannot be considered `competent' to make such a decision, any more than a person who chooses to leap out of a window in the belief that he can fly.'' It is quite possible that for the next few months, auditors of the Long Island trial will be treated to the dubious spectacle of the gesticulations such a person makes--before he hits the ground...
...building. "This was one time where the pro-choice and pro-life people could agree on something," says TIME legal correspondent Andrea Sachs. "Which is that the pro-choice people won." BTW: The stinging rebuke of anti-abortion forces must seem like a perfect retirement gift for Justice Harry Blackmun, author of Roe v. Wade. This was his last day on the Bench...