 But Blackmun felt that his opinion did not adequately reflect his liberal colleagues' views.In May 1972, he proposed that the case be reargued.Justice William O. Douglas threatened to write a dissent from the reargument order (he and the other liberal justices were suspicious that Rehnquist and Powell would vote to uphold the statute), but was coaxed out of the action by his colleagues, and his dissent was merely mentioned in the reargument order without further statement or opinion.