"I think I probably made a mistake in the Hardwick case... I do think it was inconsistent in a general way with Roe. When I had the opportunity to reread the opinions a few months later, I thought the dissent had the better of the arguments."
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Justices of the Supreme Court of the United StatesLawyers from the United StatesPresbyterians from the United StatesPeople from Virginia
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At NYU Law School, (18 October 1990); after retirement from the Court, reflecting on his vote in Bowers v. Hardwick to uphold laws making homosexual sex a crime for which people could be imprisoned. Reported in Nat Hentoff, "Infamous Sodomy Law Struck Down", The Village Voice, 22 December 1998.
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Lewis F. Powell, Jr.
Lewis Franklin Powell, Jr. (19 September 1907 – 25 August 1998) was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. He developed a reputation as a judicial moderate, and was known as a master of compromise and consensus-building. He was also widely well-regarded by contemporaries due to his personal good manners and politeness.
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