Word: warrens
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Some experts see the current court as a transitional tribunal poised between the social activism of the distinctly liberal Warren court and whatever might lie ahead. Despite four appointments made by Richard Nixon and one by Gerald Ford, the Burger bench has retreated surprisingly little from the pioneering decisions on school integration, procedural rights for criminal defendants, and the "one man, one vote" principle of legislative apportionment. Moreover, the Burger court has broken some new ground. It was unanimous in restricting Nixon's Watergate-era claims of Executive privilege. It has upheld affirmative action to correct past racial inequities...
...Presidents who appointed them with unpredictable decisions. After Oliver Wendell Holmes ruled against Teddy Roosevelt in a key antitrust case, the President, who had appointed Holmes, fumed: "I could carve out of a banana a judge with more backbone than that." Said Dwight Eisenhower about his selection of Earl Warren: "The worst damn fool mistake I ever made." Harry Blackmun stunned Richard Nixon by writing the court's majority opinion in Roe vs. Wade (1973), the decision that legalized abortion...
...instead of against you. A molder of men, Johnson knew how to get along with his court. Tom Clark and William Douglas were longtime New Deal buddies, and he kept the friendships going over lunch and on the phone. Hugo Black was out of the Senate tradition, and Earl Warren was a former Governor, the ultimate breed of political survivor. When L.B.J. wanted to clear the air about the Kennedy assassination, he never worried more than a second or two about the sanctity of the court. He went after Warren with his full guile and authority, rejecting Warren...
Richard Nixon harbored some of Johnson's political sentiments about the purposes and authority of the court. The Senate rejection of his nominees, Clement Haynsworth and G. Harrold Carswell, is now history. Nixon was in utter despair when he learned that his own appointee, Chief Justice Warren Burger, had ruled that Nixon had to surrender the White House tapes. That was a pivotal drama in the Watergate scandal. Things were changing...
Warns Cornell University Entomologist Warren Johnson: '"By the time you see caterpillars greater than one-half inch in length, the time has passed for the most effective insecticide application." At that stage, however, a simpler tactic may help: encircling tree trunks with sticky bands that trap the caterpillars as they scurry up or down. One difficulty: as the bands become overloaded, the caterpillars evade capture by clambering over the bodies of their trapped brethren...