Posted on 03/04/2006 3:37:20 PM PST by Tarkin
Retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun, author of the controversial Roe vs. Wade decision that legalized abortion in 1973, died Thursday at a Virginia hospital (...)
President Clinton said Thursday he "saw up close Harry Blackmun's intense passion -- his passion for the welfare of the American people, for defending our liberties and our institutions, for moving us forward together." "In 24 years on the Supreme Court he served with compassion, distinction, and honor," Clinton said. "Every decision and every dissent was firmly grounded in the Constitution he revered and his uncanny feel for the human element that lies just beneath the surface of all serious legal argument."
Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle (D-South Dakota) said the nation lost a judicial giant with the death of Blackmun. "We lost an extraordinary judge, an extraordinary member of the Supreme Court, someone who has had a profound impact on this country and its legal system," Daschle said. (...)
Blackmun joined the Supreme Court at age 61 and served 24 years, creating a legacy that set him far apart from where Nixon hoped he'd be. Considered conservative in early days (...) By the time he retired, the life-long Republican was considered one of the court's most liberal justices. (...)
But it was his 1973 opinion written for the decision legalizing abortion that solidified Blackmun as a lightning rod of controversy for one of the nation's hottest ongoing topics. He received more than 60,000 pieces of hate mail because of the decision. "Butcher of Dachau, murderer, Pontius Pilate, King Herod. You name it, it's all in there," Blackmun once said of the things people called him. "On the other hand, some of the letters I received, without any question, are some of the most wonderful letters anyone could ever imagine."
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may he rest in hell.
hmmm, I wonder whether all the babies who died because of him will meet him on his way to the pearly gates and as he looks out over the millions of innocents, he'll slink away to the other place.
Thirty million souls on his conscience.
That's in the same league as Stalin.
Some morons do make the world a better place when they die. This idiot was one of those morons. Burn, Harry, Burn!
Well, he made the world better when he retired. Although Breyer is not much better...
He would have been better off if he had a mill stone around his neck and been cast into the sea than what awaits him now...
Still waiting for similar article about Stevens.
Why would we care what Clinton has to say about this man.
The media hangs on Clinton like he was President or something. Oh but he is something all right POS.
You have to look at the bright side, I think President Bush has appointed two winners, It remains to be seen.
My fantasy for 'Justice' Blackmun and the others that approved of abortion on demand is that that they reside in a permanent special purgatory i.e., Blackmun and the others are placed in wooden barrels just big enough for their size. Then they are pulled, limb and flesh chunk, through the barrel's head size bung until they are completely extracted.
Occasionally, about once a day, they would be extracted fill length from the barrel and with feet remaining inside the barrel, their brains would be sucked out through a tube inserted in the base of the skull.
This cycle would be repeated over and over again through enternity.
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