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12 Oct 2011, 11:11 am by Andy Mergendahl
Meanwhile, as the Supreme Court has moved from Earl Warren to Warren Burger to William Rehnquist to John G. [read post]
1 Jul 2007, 12:33 am
Rehnquist's court, which, from 1986 to 2005, undercut many of the progressive initiatives from Earl Warren's era. [read post]
26 Apr 2010, 12:57 pm by Christine Hurt
  The two examples thrown out to show why the nonjudge justice is a great idea are former California governor Chief Justice Earl Warren and former Arizona state legislator Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. [read post]
23 Sep 2013, 6:35 am by Alex Wohl
” A similar question was faced by biographers of Justice William Brennan, who could neither completely confirm or refute an oft-cited comment said to have been made by President Eisenhower, to the effect that his appointment of Brennan and Chief Justice Earl Warren were the two worst decisions of his presidency. [read post]
17 Jul 2020, 12:25 pm by Keith E. Whittington
Lyndon Johnson tried to game the system by convincing Chief Justice Earl Warren to announce his retirement rather than risk the seat falling into frontrunner Richard Nixon's hands, and the move backfired when Warren Court critics in the Senate refused to line up behind Johnson's favorite, Abe Fortas. [read post]
14 May 2018, 12:19 pm by Lyle Denniston
Burger was the Chief Justice, following the era when the Court led by Chief Justice Earl Warren had broadly expanded federal authority, especially in the field of civil rights. [read post]
12 Mar 2019, 8:40 am by Adam Feldman
Interestingly, although the court is well known for its conservative majorities, the instances in this chart in which two justices had frequencies in the majority of 94 percent or more in the same term were all permutations of the liberal justices from the Warren Court years – Chief Justice Earl Warren and Justices William Brennan and Thurgood Marshall. [read post]
24 Jul 2012, 6:00 am by Lucas A. Ferrara, Esq.
"The chief justice who shaped both landmark cases was Earl Warren, appointed in 1953 by President Dwight David Eisenhower, who later rued what he famously characterized as "the biggest damned-fool mistake I ever made. [read post]
2 May 2012, 3:35 am by rhapsodyinbooks
By 1954, when the Brown case appeared before the high court, Earl Warren, also obviously influenced by Mendez, had become Chief Justice. [read post]
22 Feb 2010, 10:37 am
Bad Example” by Warren Zevon (various low crimes and misdemeanors as well as spiritual transgressions by way of a number of the seven deadly sins)“Tweeter and the Monkey Man” by Traveling Wilburys (drug possession and distribution; grand theft auto; probable racketeering; assault and battery of a police office; murder; illegal gambling; destruction of property . . . unless you’re in New Jersey, where a friend of mine once saw a dead monkey on the side of the highway… [read post]
3 Dec 2007, 8:35 am
Dulles, Chief Justice Earl Warren examined the notion that a punishment disproportionate to the crime would be "cruel and unusual. [read post]
4 Apr 2017, 8:10 am by Stephen Wermiel
The most successful filibuster was in 1968, when Republicans and Southern Democrats combined to block the nomination of Justice Abe Fortas to succeed Chief Justice Earl Warren. [read post]
9 Apr 2012, 9:39 am by William G. Ross
After President Eisenhower’s heart attack in 1955, Chief Justice Earl Warren was prominently mentioned as a possible G.O.P. presidential candidate in 1956, with one Gallup poll indicating that fifty percent of the voters – including fifty-eight percent of Republicans – expected him to become the nominee. [read post]
3 Apr 2013, 7:48 am by William G. Ross
  At a time when many conservatives were calling for the impeachment of Chief Justice Earl Warren and even denouncing him as a traitor, Goldwater publicly described Warren as “a very loyal man” and not “un-American” when one of his supporters at a campaign rally tried to goad him into a personal attack on the Chief Justice. [read post]
30 Oct 2018, 9:01 pm by Michael C. Dorf
Death by a thousand cuts, rather than in one fell swoop, could be the fate of those liberal precedents that survived for the nearly four decades that Reagan’s appointees sat on the Court.Earlier this year, I observed that “to a remarkable degree, almost five decades after Earl Warren retired from his seat as chief justice, Warren Court precedents define basic constitutional doctrines, even as the Burger, Rehnquist, and Roberts Courts have chiseled away at their… [read post]
25 Mar 2016, 10:54 am by Andrew Hamm
It also seems possible that Johnson hinted at Goldberg becoming the next Chief Justice after Earl Warren, who was expected to retire soon. [read post]
28 Nov 2018, 11:11 am by Adam Feldman
In absolute terms, these counts of overturning decisions line up as expected by chief justice, with decisions under Chief Justice Warren Burger at the top followed by those under Chief Justice Earl Warren. [read post]