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Court Quotes by Harry A. Blackmun
- I am more optimistic though, that this court will eventually conclude that the effort to eliminate arbitrariness while preserving fairness in the infliction of [death]…
- From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death. For more than 20 years I have endeavored--indeed, I have struggled--along…
- What the Court really has refused to recognize is the fundamental interest all individuals have in controlling the nature of their intimate associations.
- If [a United States Supreme Court Justice is] in the doghouse with the Chief [Justice], he gets the crud. He gets the tax cases.
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