The ideology of colorblindness, which seeks to ignore race, actually fosters racial inequality and hinders progress towards ...

Armstrong Williams explores whether the US Supreme Court has truly become a 'Trump Court' under the influence of three Trump ...

For starters, a substantial percentage (40-50%) of Supreme Court decisions in any term are unanimous. But not all cases are ...

Wade); authoring the majority opinion, Harry Blackmun states that the criminalization of abortion does not have “roots in the English common-law tradition.” ...

Mr. Lyman then overstates US Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun’s 1994 opinion (that the death penalty violates the Eighth Amendment’s bar against cruel and unusual punishment) for the ...

Library of Congress data indicated that the documents White did keep amounted to about a third of the papers of Justice Harry Blackmun.

Harry Blackmun had never authored a major opinion. They were both new, untested and the least likely vehicles for the abortion controversy you can imagine,” said Tracy.

In today’s Confirmation Tales post — ‘Replacing Harry Blackmun: Clinton searches for candidate ‘with a big heart’’ — I pivot back to Bill Clinton’s Supreme Court nominations.… ...

In 1972, Ziglar was a recent law school graduate who had landed a one-year clerkship for Justice Harry Blackmun, the eventual author of the landmark decision that legalized abortion nationwide.

Harry Blackmun died on March 4, 1999, and is buried in Arlington National Cemetery. For more information on this topic, check out the original entry on MNopedia.