Word: warrens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...excerpts from a forthcoming book, Six Seconds in Dallas, the Post can hardly contain its excitement. Calling Author Josiah Thompson, 32, a philosophy teacher at Haverford College, a "warm and engaging idealist with a mind like a ripsaw," Editor Bill Emerson Jr. enthusiastically writes that the book "demolishes" the Warren Commission Report. An equally emotional editorial declares that the details amassed by Thompson "cry out for the truth to be told and for the murderers to be punished...
Despite his admiration of Warren, whom he extravagantly calls "the greatest Chief Justice after John Marshall," Harvard Law Professor Archibald Cox argues that this lack is an important failing. Only by virtue of how well the court explains itself can it command consent. Its prestige comes "from the belief that the major influence in judicial decisions is not fiat but principles which bind the judges and apply consistently among all men." In addition, lack of precision leads to confusion, and confusion leads to the necessity of reinterpretation. Though the Warren court is by no means the first to spend time...
Primarily Political. Warren had a long career in public life before coming to the court. In all three major areas where the court has left its mark. Warren had previously taken opposite stands. During 23 years as deputy district attorney, then D.A. of Alameda County and attorney general of California, he was, as he puts it, "a hard prosecutor." As for civil rights, he outspokenly backed the infamous internment of all California residents with Japanese blood during World War II. Finally, as three-term Republican Governor, he vigorously expressed his opposition to a more representative reapportionment of voting districts...
Still, Justice William O. Douglas has observed that "we all come to the court with our bags fully packed." And Warren's bags contained one overriding asset: his finely honed skill as a politician and administrator. A big, friendly man who has been described as a "Swedish Jim Farley," he has in reality as much political toughness as geniality. Warren obviously believes that in vital areas where the legislative and executive branches will not or cannot move, it is up to the court. Under him, the court has taken the Bill of Rights and extended it in every direction...
...Less serious criticism may well be muted henceforth. Robert Welch recently announced that his John Birch Society was shelving its "Impeach Earl Warren" campaign for lack of public response...