Word: blackmun
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...unreal." Moreover, Stewart said that the testimony "was of peripheral significance at most," since 20 witnesses testified and were available for cross-examination-including another co-conspirator who described in detail the crime and Evans' part in it. Three justices agreed with Stewart; two of them, Justice Harry Blackmun and Chief Justice Warren Burger, went on to argue that even if the judge made an error by admitting the evidence, it was a harmless error...
...majority consisted of Chief Justice Warren E. Burger, Associate Justices Hugo L. Black, William J. Brennan Jr., Byron R. White, Thur-good Marshall and Harry A. Blackmun. Justices Potter Stewart and John M. Harlan dissented on different grounds...
...Implicit in the court's previous decisions has been the idea that since assignments based on race created segregation, they can now be used to dismantle it. But the Administration's modest view of how much desegregation is necessary seemed to win some sympathy from Justice Harry Blackmun as well as Burger. Justice Hugo Black, long a staunch advocate of rapid desegregation, hinted that he was now skeptical of trying to "rearrange the whole country" to change "the whole practice and tradition of the neighborhood school...
...Blackmun may also cast the tie-breaking vote in a series of cases that will illuminate the constitutional limits of protest and dissent. While the Warren Court largely avoided the chore of setting new First Amendment rules, suggests Yale's Alexander Bickel, events may now force the court to face such issues...
...attorneys last week, the Justices might conceivably be forced to set up their own military-affairs office, supervising troop withdrawals and dealing diplomatically with North Viet Nam. The court may well avoid the politically charged Massachusetts case. But clearly the Justices will be kept busy without it. Mr. Justice Blackmun, no doubt, would concur in that opinion...