Word: warrens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Throughout, Earl Warren was both symbol and target. Bumper stickers reading IMPEACH EARL WARREN-or in California, FLUORIDATE EARL WARREN -festooned countless autos, and the Chief Justice was long No. 1 on the far right's hate list. In 1954, Mississippi's Senator James Eastland denounced Warren's court as "the greatest single threat to our Constitution"; last week George Wallace declared that "he's done more to destroy constitutional government in this country than any one man." Even Dwight Eisenhower, who thought of Warren as a mildly progressive Republican when he named him Chief Justice...
Even within the unemotional confines of the legal profession, the Warren court has often been attacked. Usually the line is drawn between two factions. There are those who, like the late Justices Louis Brandeis and Felix Frankfurter, believe in strict judicial restraint, holding that the court exists not to make law but to interpret it rather strictly. And there are the judicial activists, who believe that many wrongs can be righted by following the broad mandate of the Constitution. The main thrust of the Warren court, particularly since Frankfurter's retirement in 1962, has been toward activism. This view...
Actually, the critics have not been exactly on target in attacking Warren, for the Chief Justice is only one of nine men, with only one of nine votes. "Warren should get neither the blame nor the credit," says Harry Kalven Jr., a law professor at the University of Chicago. "Both the great achievements and the non-achievements of an institution are collective." A Columbia law professor sees Warren's chief significance in his having "brought a fifth vote to positions that were dissenting positions before he came." In fact, no Chief Justice has come close to dominating the court...
...turns out that the real reason Earl Warren resigned was to get back into presidential politics. He accepts second place on Nixon's ticket, thus bringing unity between the Coasts and-even more difficult-between the feuding factions of the G.O.P., both nationwide and in California. For the first time in its modern history, the Golden State has a united party, and in the boredom that follows, California begins losing population back to New York...
...from Bombay. Despite their pervasive presence in U.S. business, the family so shunned the limelight that President-elect Warren G. Harding had to ask, "Who is Mellon?" when Andrew W. was recommended to him for the job of Secretary of the Treasury. "Uncle Andy" served from 1921 to 1932, but he will probably be better remembered as the collector who gave the nation a $50 million art collection and a building (now the National Gallery of Art) to house...