Word: burger
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After a decade, it is Burger's in name only...
...appraise the Supreme Court a decade after Warren Burger became Chief Justice, TIME interviewed several of the Justices, dozens of their law clerks, and scholars across the land. One finding: after ten years at the helm of the nation 's highest tribunal, Burger has yet to demonstrate the intellectual or personal persuasion necessary to make him a leader among his highly individualistic brethren. Another: faced with a never-ending array of increasingly complex issues, the court itself is splintered and groping; its decisions often seem inconsistent...
Earl Warren retired, and in May 1969 Nixon chose Warren Earl Burger to replace him as Chief Justice. Burger, then 61, seemed made to order for Nixon's views...
...product of night law school in Minnesota rather than the Eastern Establishment, Burger had been a judge on the prestigious U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, where he had often criticized the Warren Court's liberal decisions on the rights of the criminally accused...
...setting for the sermon on the Mall could hardly have been more dramatic. The preacher was Pope John Paul II, and his key topic was abortion. In the windswept Washington congregation of 175,000 sat Chief Justice Warren Burger, who concurred with the opinion that struck down all antiabortion laws. In the distance was the Capitol, where Congress had long been ensnarled in a nearly $500 billion budget impasse over abortion funding. Declared John Paul: "We will stand up every time that human life is threatened. When the sacredness of life before birth is attacked, we will stand...