Word: blackmun
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...impressiveness, Amsterdam's argument may be just a warmup. Observers of the court believe it to be so closely divided on the capital-punishment issue that it will decide the Maxwell case on a technicality and wait for Justice Blackmun before tackling the constitutionality of the death penalty itself. In that event, Amsterdam almost certainly will be back on behalf of another condemned...
...court nomination stirred up so destructive a dispute as that produced by the unsuccessful Carswell and Haynsworth nominations. With an almost palpable sense of relief, the Senate is set to begin the repair process this week by consenting - cheerfully - to the appointment of Federal Circuit Judge Harry Blackmun to the place vacated by Abe Fortas' forced resig nation twelve months...
...brief report, the committee termed Blackmun "thoroughly qualified" and noted that "not a single witness appeared in opposition...
Remembering how Clement Hayns worth Jr.'s candidacy foundered on allegations of conflict of interest, the com mittee delved deeply into Blackmun's financial record. The Senators noted that in his eleven years on the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals, Blackmun heard 900 cases and participated in only four suits where he had even a remote financial interest in one of the litigants. The committee backed the American Bar Association's finding that "his stockholdings are so small that, in our opinion, he violated no statute or canon...
Indiana Democrat Birch Bayh, leader of the successful opposition to both Haynsworth and G. Harrold Carswell, implicitly contrasted Blackmun to Carswell, who was criticized for insensitivity toward racial issues. Though Blackmun has been labeled a conservative, the lib eral Bayh said: "There is every indication that Judge Blackmun is aware of the crucial questions of civil rights and human rights facing our nation - and is equipped to deal with them with sensitivity, understanding and intelligence...