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Jun 22, 2024 · Warren E. Burger was the 15th chief justice (1969–86) of the United States Supreme Court. After graduating with honours from St. Paul (now William Mitchell) College of Law in 1931, Burger joined a prominent St. Paul law firm and gradually became active in Republican Party politics.
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Warren Earl Burger was born on Sept. 17, 1907, in St. Paul,...
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11 hours ago · U.S. President Richard Nixon (center) with new Chief Justice Warren E. Burger (right) and former Chief Justice Earl Warren, pictured on June 23, 1969. (Photo by Marion S. Trikosko, U.S. News & World Report Magazine Collection, Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
11 hours ago · The Burger Court Nixon’s appointee for the chief justice position, Warren E. Burger, a Warren Court critic, seemed to portend a jurisprudential shift. A self-made man who had attended night school in Minnesota and worked his way up in Republican circles, Burger came to the Supreme Court from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.
Jun 27, 2024 · The justices initially brought their own, but Chief Justice Warren E. Burger thought it looked “untidy” and ordered uniform chairs tailored to each new justice. Originally, the bench was ...
Jun 27, 2024 · Further, Chief Justice Warren Burger (1907–1995), a Nixon appointee and Warren’s successor, had delivered a speech in February 1981 lamenting that while there were “massive safeguards for accused persons” courts had failed to provide “elementary protection for its decent, law abiding citizens.”
Jun 26, 2024 · In this case, writing for the Court, which voted 7–2 in favor of Chadha, Chief Justice Warren Burger (1907–1995) argued that such actions by Congress violated the separation of powers because the veto is a legislative act.
4 days ago · Chief Justice Warren Burger wrote a concurrence in which he wrote that he thought it would be permissible to allow a state to require two physicians to certify an abortion before it could be performed.
