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  Warren E. Burger - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Warren Burger at a press conference in May 1969 shortly after he was nominated to be Chief Justice of the United States.
In the early 1970s, it became apparent that Burger was not going to turn the clock back on the rulings of the Warren Court, as the Court issued rulings supporting busing to reduce de facto racial segregation in schools and invalidating all death penalty laws then in force, although Burger dissented from the latter decision.
Burger was a strong supporter of separation of powers and the maintenance of checks and balances between the branches of government.
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 Warren E. Burger   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Warren Earl Burger (1907-1995) was Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1969 to 1986.
Burger was born in St Paul, Minnesota in 1906 and became a lawyer.
Burger becaem a prominent critic of Chief Justice Earl Warren and argued in favour of the very literal constructionist reading of the US Constitution.
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 Warren Earl Burger, Chief Justice, US Supreme Court
Burger spoke for the court in decisions that inaugurated busing as a tool for the racial desegregation of public schools, expanded public access to the nation's courts and enhanced women's protections against sexual discrimination.
Burger said material is obscene, and therefore not protected by the Constitution's free-speech guarantee, if it appeals to a morbid interest in sex with patently offensive depictions of sexual conduct, and on the whole has no serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value.
Burger was engulfed in controversy in 1981 over reports that the proofs of a book by John Ehrlichman, a former top aide to Nixon, said Burger in 1970 went to the White House and discussed a pending Supreme Court case with Nixon and then-Attorney General John Mitchell.
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 Warren E. Burger   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Warren Earl Burger (September 17, 1907 - June 25, 1995) was Chief Justice of the United States from 1969 to 1986, longer than anyone else in the 20th century.
In the early 1970s, it became apparent that Burger was not going to turn the clock back on the rulings of the Warren court, as the Court issued rulings supporting busing to reduce de facto racial segregation in schools and invalidating all US death penalty law (although Burger dissented from the latter decision).
Burger retired on September 26, 1986 and died in 1995 of congestive heart failure.
www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/warren_e__burger   (1016 words)

  
 Warren Burger
Warren Burger was born in St. Paul, Minnesota on September 17, 1907.
In 1956, Burger was appointed to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
Burger was confirmed in mid-1969, and remained Chief Justice until his retirement after the conclusion of the October 1985 Term (summer 1986), longer than any other Chief Justice of the 20th century (Chief Justice Rehnquist has been Chief Justice longer, but his tenure spans two centuries).
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 Warren E. Burger - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Warren Earl Burger (September 17, 1907 – June 25, 1995) was Chief Justice of the United States from 1969 to 1986, longer than anyone else in the 20th century.
Through speeches like this, Burger became a prominent critic of Chief Justice Earl Warren and argued in favour of a very literal constructionist reading of the US Constitution.
He joined the Court majority in voting to reinstate the death penalty in 1976, and in 1983 he vigorously dissented from the Court's holding in the case of that a sentence of life imprisonment for issuing a fraudulent check in the amount of $100 constituted cruel and unusual punishment.
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Warren, Earl, 1891-1974, American public official and 14th Chief Justice of the United States (1953-69), b.
Warren, Earl A political leader and judge of the twentieth century.
Warren was governor of California before being named chief justice of the Supreme Court in 1953,...
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 Reader's Companion to American History - -BURGER, WARREN   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Burger decided to return to private practice, but in 1956 Eisenhower nominated him to the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, considered by many the second most important court in the federal system.
Burger himself seemed to have no set voting pattern and often joined a majority only in order to be able to assign the opinion.
Burger's major opinion was that handed down in the Nixon tapes case, which reasserted the judiciary's primacy in interpreting constitutional issues.
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 Warren E. Burger   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Warren Earl Burger was born in St. Paul Minnesota.
Burger was named by President Richard Nixon in 1969 to replace Earl Warren as Chief Justice.
Burger was a strong advocate of "strict construction" to the interpretation of the Constitution.
www.oyez.org /oyez/resource/legal_entity/97/biography   (163 words)

  
 Warren Burger
Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court Warren Burger was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, the son of immigrant parents.
Burger first came into the public eye when he supported the federal prosecution of John Peters for disloyalty, despite the US solicitor general's refusal to prosecute.
Burger, Warren E. Significant Supreme Court Opinions of the Honorable Warren E. Burger, Chief Justice of the United States.
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 Warren Burger   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Burger, who died June 25, was the nation's 15th chief justice, serving for 17 years, the longest tenure this century.
In 1955, President Eisenhower appointed Burger to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.
Former Chief Justice Warren Burger speaking at the celebration of the Constitution's bicentennial.
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Burger is responsible for cutting the time for Supreme Court oral arguments from two hours to one hour per case and for changing the court's straight bench to its current curved wings.
Burger was a force behind the Pound Conference, a two-day meeting in 1976 named after former Harvard Law School Dean Roscoe Pound and cosponsored by the Judicial Conference, the Conference of Chief Justices, and the ABA.
Burger once estimated that up to one-half of all lawyers entering court were not adequately trained to fully represent their clients.
www.uscourts.gov /ttb/julttb/warren.htm   (803 words)

  
 The Supreme Court Historical Society
WARREN E. was born in St. Paul Minnesota, on September 17, 1907.
Burger practiced with a St. Paul law firm from 1931 to 1953.
Burger retired from the Court on September 26, 1986, after seventeen years of service, and continued to direct the Commission on the Bicentennial of the United States Constitution from 1986 to 1992.
www.supremecourthistory.org /02_history/subs_timeline/images_chiefs/015.html   (254 words)

  
 Warren Burger Second Amendment Dave Kopel Independence Institute   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Burger’s pronouncement is quoted prominently in current advertising by the Center to Prevent Handgun Violence, the tax-exempt arm of Handgun Control, Inc.
Burger's Parade essay was devoted to the historical background of the Second Amendment.
Burger interpreted the Constitution to protect only things that the Chief Justice felt personally comfortable with, and not to protect those things with which he did not care to be familiar.
www.davekopel.com /2A/Mags/crburger.htm   (1431 words)

  
 Burger, Warren Earl on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Appointed to head the Supreme Court by President Nixon, and perceived as a conservative and an advocate of judicial restraint, Burger was less forceful than had been expected in limiting or reversing the liberal decisions of the court headed by his predecessor Earl Warren.
Warren Burger: the prairie wind.(former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court)(Obituary)
An extraconstitutional arrangement: Lyndon Johnson and the fall of the warren court.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/b/burger-w1.asp   (340 words)

  
 MNHS.ORG | Library | History Topics | Warren E. Burger
On June 23, 1969, Warren E. Burger took the oath as the chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
Warren Earl Burger was born in St. Paul on September 17, 1907, and in 1931 earned his LL.B. from the St. Paul College of Law (now the William Mitchell College of Law).
This is the transcript of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary hearing on the nomination of Burger for chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
www.state.mn.us /ebranch/mhs/library/tips/history_topics/122warren_burger.html   (658 words)

  
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Burger is entitled to his opinion, but it's clearly an extreme minority one, even among Supreme Court justices.
Burger never backed up his personal opinion (delivered verbally at a press conference for a proposed bill which would have banned *all* handguns) with anything remotely resembling cites or historical references, so we're at a loss as to what he based his opinion on, if indeed he based it on anything at all.
Burger lent his support during a June 25, 1992 news conference in which Senator Chafee introduced his bill to outlaw the sale, manufacture, and possession of all handguns.
www.hoboes.com /pub/Firearms/Government/Courts/U.S.%20Supreme%20Court/Warren%20Burger-Liberal%20or%20Loon%3f   (1149 words)

  
 The Volokh Conspiracy - Earl Warren Burger Is Miers' Favorite Justice?--
Burger was reputed to have done a good job running the federal court system, but is usually viewed as an indifferent or poor justice.
Second, Burger went on for over a half hour about how embarrassing it was when Justices went to parties in Washington (especially embassy parties) and they did not have chauffeurs, how he was trying to get drivers for Justices, and how much he enjoyed the royal treatment he received when he visited other countries.
Burger did, however, serve on the D.C. Appeals Court for thirteen years before becoming Chief Justice, so even if he didn't go to an elite law school and is a jerk, he was "qualified" in a way that Miers is not.
volokh.powerblogs.com /posts/1128666588.shtml   (8304 words)

  
 Warren E. Burger lecture is Sept. 17 - William Mitchell College of Law   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Trowbridge’s friendship with Burger began during their work on the U.S. Constitution Bicentennial celebration, and in the ensuing years Trowbridge gained insights into Burger’s legal strategy.
Trowbridge is the author of “With Sweet Majesty, Warren E. Burger” and a retired professor of English and former vice president for external affairs programs at Hillsdale College in Michigan.
Burger is a 1931 graduate of William Mitchell.
www.wmitchell.edu /news/articles/burger0902.html   (219 words)

  
 Earl Gregg Swem Library Special Collections
The Warren E. Burger papers were given to the College of William and Mary by his son, Wade A. Burger in 1996.
Warren Burger served as the 20th chancellor of the College of William and Mary from 1986-1993, and the College is honored to serve as the permanent home of the papers of one of the most influential legal figures of this century, whose papers will become an immeasurable resource for future historians and legal scholars.
All these facets of Warren E. Burger's career are well represented in the approximately 1,200 cubic feet of papers, 1,500 photographs and more than 300 artifacts in custody of the College of William and Mary.
www.swem.wm.edu /departments/special-collections/about/burger.cfm   (387 words)

  
 Warren? Or Burger? A Matter of Judgment.
But during an appearance Sunday on the ABC show "This Week," Leahy said he could not recall Miers having first said "Warren," although he reiterated that she named Burger as one of the justices she admires.
Burger is most often remembered among court historians as "not a terribly successful chief justice," said Mark V. Tushnet, a Georgetown University law professor.
Before being appointed to the high court, Burger advocated a strict-constructionist view of the Constitution, which many conservatives thought would translate into opposition to things such as school busing and abortion.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/11/AR2005101101804.html?nav=rss_politics/congress   (601 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Warren Earl Burger (Supreme Court, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Warren Earl Burger 1907–95, American jurist, fifteenth Chief Justice of the United States (1969–86), b.
Paul, Minn. After receiving his law degree in 1931 from St. Paul College of Law (now Mitchell College of Law), he was admitted to the Minnesota bar and taught and practiced law in St. Paul.
He was (1953–56) assistant attorney general in charge of the civil division of the Department of Justice before becoming judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.
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 Burger, Warren E. --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Burger, Warren E. 15th chief justice of the United States (1969–86).
As chief justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1953 to 1969, Earl Warren presided during a period of sweeping changes in United States constitutional law, especially in the areas of race relations, criminal procedure, and legislative apportionment.
Warren is also remembered for heading a committee that investigated the 1963 assassination of...
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 TPMCafe || A Good Day for Warren Burger Fans
Until today, Nixon-era Chief Justice Warren Burger was largely forgotten, except for the memorable portrait of him in The Brethren as vain and vacuous, more concerned with controlling who got to write opinions than with what they said.
But if she was really saying that she admired Warren Burger for anything, it would show how little she knows about the Court.
warren was persuaded to retire prematurely so as to become the head of the consitution's anniversary committee.
www.tpmcafe.com /story/2005/10/7/175915/253   (1150 words)

  
 AIPLA | Warren E. Burger Writing Competition   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Board of Trustees of the American Inns of Court Foundation has established a "Warren E. Burger Writing Competition." The competition is designed to encourage outstanding scholarship “promoting the ideals of excellence, civility, ethics and professionalism within the legal profession,” the core mission of the American Inns of Court.
Chief Justice Burger was a lifelong advocate of legal ethics and civility and the “founding father” of the American Inns of Court movement.
The Warren E. Burger Prize will be presented to the author at the American Inns of Court annual Celebration of Excellence at the United States Supreme Court.
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