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...Mapp v. Ohio, ordering all states to obey the rule that even if illegally seized evidence shows guilt the defendant may be freed because the police violated the Constitution. Far less controversial: 1963's Gideon v. Wainwright, which overturned the conviction of Florida Indigent Clarence Earl Gideon, applies the Sixth Amendment's right to counsel to all defendants in state criminal courts. Overriding precedents going back to 1908, the Court last year said that under the Fifth Amendment a state cannot compel a person to testify against himself...
...Dealer's faith in the goodness of Government power. Backing up F.D.R. in World War II, he wrote the Court's 1944 opinion upholding the wholesale relocation of West Coast Japanese-Americans (actively supported in 1942 by California's then attorney general, Earl Warren) over Justice Frank Murphy's eloquent dissent that called the ruling "the ugly abyss of racism." By 1952, Black had swung so far around to a concept of limited Government that he wrote
Politics & Principles. If a search for national standards is what basically haunts Black and his brethren, the frequently fiat-like results have obviously upset many Americans. Totally apart from the Birchers, with their campaign to "impeach Earl Warren," the critics of at least some decisions include such highly respectable friends of the Court as Harvard's famed Law Professor Paul Freund, who sees in its drumfire decisions "a tendency to make broad principles do service for specific problems that demand differentiation, a tendency toward overbroadness that is not an augury of enduring work...
...seven unpaid members of the Warren Commission represented both parties and every major region of the U.S., had a common bond of integrity and accomplishment. As chairman, President Johnson picked Chief Justice Earl Warren, 73. From the U.S. Senate came Georgia's conservative Democrat Richard B. Russell, 66, the leader of the Senate's Southern bloc, and Kentucky's liberal Republican John Sherman Cooper, 63, a former circuit judge and Ambassador to India. From the House came Louisiana's Hale Boggs, 50, the House Democratic whip, and Michigan Republican Gerald Ford, 51, a Yale Law School graduate and an armed...
...content to rely on secondhand reports, the Commission determined to investigate everything afresh. Earl Warren interviewed Jacqueline Kennedy in her Georgetown home and Jack Ruby in his Dallas jail (Ruby called him "Earl"). Every member of the Commission flew to Dallas one or more times, painstakingly retraced the movements that Oswald was known to have made on Nov. 22. They visited the rooming house where he lived, the theater where he was captured, the jail basement where he was shot. At the Texas School Book Depository building, each one went to the sixth-floor spot where Oswald had stood, shouldered...