Word: warrener
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Earl Warren, former California governor, U.S. Chief Justice................. D.C.L...
Except for its decisions on school desegregation, the U.S. Supreme Court under Chief Justice Earl Warren has come under no heavier fire than for its rulings in the prickly area of internal security. Time and again, in apparently sweeping opinions, the court threw its weight on the side of individuals involved in security cases-to the point where many a sober-minded observer feared that the public interest was being jeopardized. But last week, in a pair of 5-4 decisions, the Supreme Court gave clearer focus to two of the most controversial of its earlier security-case rulings, brought...
From Nelson to Uphaus. In 1956, a 6-to-3 decision of the Supreme Court reversed the Pennsylvania conviction of Communist Leader Steve Nelson on state sedition charges. Said the majority opinion written by Chief Justice Warren: Federal regulations against subversive activity were so "pervasive" that "Congress left no room for the states to supplement [them]." By its language, the opinion seemed to be kicking the states completely out of the antisedition field...
...Justice Clark: "All the [Nelson] opinion proscribed was a race between federal and state prosecutors to the courthouse door. The opinion made clear that a State could proceed with prosecutions for sedition against the State itself." In a dissent written by Justice William Brennan and joined by Chief Justice Warren and Justices Hugo Black and William Douglas, the court's staunchly civil righteous minority protested that the entire New Hampshire investigation of Uphaus was "exposure purely for the sake of exposure...
...Supreme Court voted 6 to 1 against the contempt-of-Congress conviction of John Watkins, onetime official of the Red-led Farm Equipment Workers International Union, who had refused to answer House un-American Activities Committee questions about Communism. The court's opinion, written by Chief Justice Warren, included a scathing denunciation of congressional investigative activities; critics of the opinion argued that in trying to put a rein on congressional investigators, the court instead had come up with a noose...