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Blackmun should be remembered as the Father of the American Holocaust of abortion. The scum bag rots in hell this very second along with every Burger court member who voted for it.

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This article is neither particularly informative nor written from a neutral point of view. Instead of giving information on Harry Blackmun, it strongly critizies (in none to clear language) one of the Supreme Court decisions (Roe vs. Wade) he was involved in.

I would encourage someone with more knowledge than me about the American Supreme Court to completely rewrite this article.

Ok, I've gone ahead and done it. It can still use a lot more information by a knowledgable person!

Any source for his first name being Harold rather than Harry? I can't find any reliable confirmation of that. MisfitToys 22:44, September 9, 2005 (UTC)

I agree that the article does not paint a clear picture of Blackmun's philosophy as a judge. There are some insights (such as his reliance on emotion), but if anyone can, it would be helpful to enter more info on his written opinions about a variety of topics, e.g. the limits of state jurisdiction, interstate commerce, other big legal issues (even those fundamental issues not popularized by mass media). I can add it some info from time to time. 10/06/2005

Corrected error on his nomination date from April 4th to April 14th. Blackmun always lists the anniversary of his nomination within his appointment books on file at the Library of Congress. 03/15/2012 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Reyject (talk • contribs) 19:40, 15 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Bot-created subpage

A temporary subpage at User:Polbot/fjc/Harry Andrew Blackmun was automatically created by a perl script, based on this article at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges. The subpage should either be merged into this article, or moved and disambiguated. Polbot (talk) 15:56, 4 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Narrative without support

Someone has already tagged it but the section on Blackmun's apparent transition to a liberal voting record seems poorly sourced. It may well be true but most of it seems more intent on telling a good story than reporting on the facts. Where do we know that he was profoundly affected from? etc.89.241.65.10 (talk) 12:01, 20 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Misquotation

The section claiming that Blackmun said he is here for victory in Vietnam and to get the bible back in the schools needs to be removed. It is an error. If you go to the page cited, it is clear that the transcript is in error if you listen to the tape. The speaker is a protester, not Harry Blackmun.

FarmBoy1970 (talk) 15:55, 23 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Relationship to Clerks

I noticed that this article and the article for the Bowers decision both cite the Volohk Conspiracy (http://volokh.com/about/) as a source. This doesn't seem to satisfy the rules about references. It's not from a recognized periodical, but from a group blog by law professors. JazzyGroove (talk) 02:25, 6 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

It was well-documented that Justice Blackmun's law clerks wrote many of his opinions, and many sources have reported on Karlan's authorship of his Bowers dissent. I added a reference to this N.Y. Times article; see also this article from Legal Affairs and this article from the Marquette Law review. Please feel free to improve this article by incorporating information from these sources. Best, -- Notecardforfree (talk) 22:58, 8 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Need the addition of the Mineral King v. Morton.

Hi all,

I'm learning about environmental law in one of my classes. Blackmun was one of the judges who voted in favor of the Mineral King v. Morton.

lawsuit which granted the rights to environmental groups to represent the environment itself as a means to sue for damages. It's a really

important lawsuit which set legal precedent for environmental law as it is known today. I think it should be mentioned in the article (ideally in some detail).

Might this be Sierra Club v. Morton (which deals with Mineral King)? But in that case, the court decided against allowing the group to represent "the environment itself" and Blackmun dissented from that opinion. The court also suggested that finding a single member of the environmental group directly (even if tangentially) affected by the issue at hand would be enough to grant standing (advice which Sierra Club promptly implemented). --Stephan Schulz (talk) 11:38, 30 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]