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Article Excerpt
Becoming Justice Blackmun: Harry Blackmun's Supreme Court Journey
Linda Greenhouse
Times Books
www.henryholt.com
288 pp., $25
During last fall's debacle that was the Supreme Court nomination of Harriet Miers, the conservatives who forced her withdrawal rallied to the cry, "No more Souters," a reference to Justice David Souter, who was nominated as a reliable conservative by the first President Bush and who has voted more liberally than anyone ever expected. For example, rather than sound the death knell of Roe v. Wade, Souter helped defeat the last serious effort to overturn that controversial precedent.
Miers's critics could have readily argued that what they really did not want was another Harry Blackmun, the Nixon appointee who wrote Roe. In Be coming Justice Blackmun, Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporter Linda Greenhouse mines Blackmun's personal papers to explain the journey the justice...
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