Word: legalization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Warren Earl Burger, Nixon's choice to replace Chief Justice Earl Warren, is in many ways a judge's judge ? and an al most total unknown outside the legal community. In 13 years...
...large measure, Burger owed his nomination as much to Abe Fortas as to Richard Nixon, and the President said as much in an extraordinary 45-minute session with newsmen the day after the appointment. Speaking from notes he had written on his celebrated yellow legal pad, the President told not only why he had chosen Burger but why he had not chosen several others who had been prominently mentioned for the job. Other Presidents, including L.B.J., have held background sessions dealing with personalities or events. But never before has a President admitted the public so far into his thinking about...
...same time, Chief Justice Warren, as one of his last official acts, requested senior federal judges to begin drafting a code of ethics for the federal judiciary. The prospective rules would not only bar judges from outside employment, excepting only lecturing, writing and teaching on legal subjects, but would also require disclosure within the Judicial branch of all income. In a sense, Warren was racing Congress, where three bills on judicial ethics have already been submitted. It is uncertain, however, how far Congress could go in clamping down on a supposedly coequal branch of government. Many Congressmen believe that...
...demands for participation by the poor and the powerless. There will be constant requests, predicts Westin, for the court to referee. If it refuses, he says, there will be "a decade unsurpassed in violence." Beyond that, there will be, without question, a paramount need to provide a legal framework to curb an overweening technology, which even today threatens to destroy both man and his works...
After two years of college and four of law school, Burger went to work in 1931 for the well-regarded law firm of Boyesen, Otis and Faricy. It was the start of a long legal career. He then married Elvera Stromberg, whom he had met when they were both taking extension courses at Minnesota. They have two children: a son, Wade, now 32 and a real estate man in northern Virginia, and a daughter, Margaret, 22, a Montessori school student teacher...