Word: burger
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Burger Court of the 1970s has proved less liberal, but it is hardly a model of judicial restraint. Rather, it is what scholars call "selectively activist," which some say means that its activism depends on whether or not it likes the result. One of its most activist decisions remains Roe vs. Wade (1973), which found in the Constitution an implicit right for women to have abortions. Although equal protection has of late been invoked less in the cause of the poor and the black, it has been extended to just about everyone else, including aliens, bastards and even...
Venturi saw the everyday commercial vernacular-McDonald's, Ramada Inn, Burger King, Tastee-Freez, Fatburger. Kentucky Fried-as a source, just as the International Style had used the "styleless" metaphor of machinery, biplanes and ocean liners as its source...
What do you think of the Burger Court...
...Burger Court is horrible...The one conservative you're going to have there for a long time is Rehnquist, who's a horrible conservative, and a dangerous conservative because he's sharp...Burger and Blackmun just don't have an appreciation of what the law's all about...They weren't brought up in the law. It's shocking to have a guy like Burger as Chief Justice, wanting to do away with jury trials and a lot of other things that he just doesn't understand...
What about Burger's disparagement of the American trial lawyer...