Earl Warren

(noun)

An American jurist and politician who served as the fourteenth Chief Justice of the United States (1953-1969) and the thirtieth Governor of California. Under his leadership, the Supreme Court reached a number of sweeping decisions, including the end of school segregation and transformation of many areas of American law.

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Examples of Earl Warren in the following topics:

  • The Warren Court

    • The Warren Court (1953-1969), or the Supreme Court of the United States during the period when Earl Warren served as Chief Justice, declared a number of critical cases that expanded civil rights, civil liberties, judicial power, and the federal power in dramatic ways.
    • The Warren Court refers to the Supreme Court of the United States between 1953 and 1969, when Earl Warren served as Chief Justice.
    • Warren's priority on fairness shaped other major decisions.
    • In Warren's California, Los Angeles County had only one state senator.
    • The Supreme Court in 1953, with Chief Justice Earl Warren sitting center.

  • Brown v. Board of Education and School Integration

    • Chief Justice Earl Warren convened a meeting of the justices and presented to them with the argument that the only reason to sustain segregation was an honest belief in the inferiority of African-American citizens.
    • Warren further submitted that the Court must overrule Plessy to maintain its legitimacy as an institution of liberty, and it must do so unanimously to avoid massive southern resistance.
    • Warren drafted the basic opinion and kept circulating and revising it until the opinion was endorsed by all the members of the Court.
    • The members of the Warren Court that unanimously agreed on Brown v.

  • Battles in the Courts and Congress

    • In 1986, during his second term, the President Reagan elevated Justice William Rehnquist to succeed outgoing Chief Justice Warren Burger and named Antonin Scalia to occupy the seat left by Rehnquist.
    • By the end of the 1980s, a conservative majority on the Supreme Court had put an end to the perceived "activist" trend begun under the leadership of Chief Justice Earl Warren.

  • The Free Exercise Clause: Freedom of Religion

    • With the ascendancy of the Warren Court under Chief Justice Earl Warren, a new standard of "strict scrutiny" in various areas of civil rights law was applied.

  • The Election of 1952

    • Eisenhower, who became the candidate of the party's moderate eastern establishment, Senator Robert Taft of Ohio, the longtime leader of the GOP's conservative wing, and Governor Earl Warren of California, who appealed to Western delegates and independent voters.

  • The Nixon Administration

    • He was inaugurated on January 20, 1969, sworn in by his former political rival, Chief Justice Earl Warren.

  • The Lyndon B. Johnson Administration

    • Johnson created a panel headed by Chief Justice Earl Warren, known as the Warren Commission, to investigate Kennedy's assassination.

  • The Brown Decision

    • Chief Justice Earl Warren convened a meeting of the justices, and presented to them the simple argument that the only reason to sustain segregation was an honest belief in the inferiority of African Americans.
    • Warren further submitted that the Court must overrule Plessy to maintain its legitimacy as an institution of liberty, and it must do so unanimously to avoid massive Southern resistance.

  • Disengagement Theory

    • It was originally formulated by Elaine Cumming and Warren Earl Henry in their 1961 book Growing Old.

  • Peace Overtures and the Evacuation of Philadelphia

    • The commission was headed by the Earl of Carlisle and included William Eden, a British statesman and diplomat, and George Johnstone, former Governor of West Florida.
    • Portrait of Frederick Howard, 5th Earl of Carlisle by Sir Joshua Reynolds 1769