BECOMING JUSTICE BLACKMUN:
Harry Blackmun’s Supreme Court Journey

When: Tuesday, May 24, 2005, at 7 to 9 p.m.
Where: House of the Association, 42 West 44th Street.

At the time of his appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court on April 4, 1970 by President Richard Nixon, Harry Blackmun was declared “conservative-to-moderate in both criminal law and civil rights” by William Rehnquist, Nixon's assistant attorney general who analyzed Blackmun’s record as an Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals judge. In fact, Blackmun was widely viewed as the most liberal member of the Supreme Court by the end of his 24-year career, writing on controversial issues such as the landmark decision Roe v. Wade.

Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times Supreme Court correspondent Linda Greenhouse covered the last 16 years of his tenure and examines this transformation, after obtaining exclusive access to research Justice Blackmun’s extensive archive and private and public papers, made available in 2003.

Speaker:
LINDA GREENHOUSE, Supreme Court Correspondent, The New York Times.

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