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| Year appointed to Supreme Court |
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| "Served as United States Senate for 10 years. |
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| Known as the Minnesota Twin by the press |
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In his early years he regularly voted with the Chief Justice.
Later, he distanced himself from the Court's conservative bloc and increasingly joined Justices Marshall and Brennan in dissent. |
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| He started out as conservative and later started joining the liberal judges |
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Roe v. Wade - He wrote the majority opinion in 1973.
Suggested that he was influenced by his pre-judicial experience as house counsel for Mayo clinic, where he frequently advised doctors and defended their right to make medical judgments. |
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