TITLE

Harry Blackmun

PUB. DATE

March 1993

SOURCE

U.S. News & World Report;3/22/93, Vol. 114 Issue 11, p19

SOURCE TYPE

Periodical

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

Reports that 84-year-old Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun may soon give his friend President Bill Clinton the Democrats' first chance to fill a Supreme Court vacancy since 1967. Possibility that Democratic appointee Byron White, 75, may also step down; Blackmun is most famous for his 1973 `Roe v. Wade' abortion opinion.

ACCESSION #

9303170875

 

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