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The two liberal justices, John Paul Stevens and Harry Blackmun, the latter of whom authored the decision in Roe, were stunned. Stevens revealed in his memoir that he sent a letter to the three authors “congratulating them on a fine piece of work.” Hethat they bump the criticism of past cases to the end of their draft, so he and Blackmun could join the first part. They agreed, giving that part of the draft a majority that spoke for the court as a whole when it was released.
Republican presidents had nominated eight of the nine justices. How could three of them write this decision? This threading of the needle — allowing Roe to stand but affirming the right of states to limit access to abortion — was a political earthquake. “That battle is over,” the Los Angeles Timesat the time of Roe’s new lease on life. “It will never be overturned now.”
The right took it as a betrayal. Republican presidents had nominated eight of the nine justices.
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