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Supreme Court Faces a Ragged Start to New Term
The court enters a lean docket with four-decade-old vacancies and two retirements. Chief Justice Warren Burger and Justice Harry Blackmun head a crisis lineup as Nixon nominates successors to Hugo Black and John Harlan. The Oct. 12 to Oct. 20 sessions loom with key capital punishment and civil liberty cases awaiting action.
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