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Warren Earl Burger (September 17, 1907 – June 25, 1995) was an American attorney and jurist who served as the 15th chief justice of the United States from 1969 to 1986. Born in Saint Paul, Minnesota, Burger graduated from the St. Paul College of Law in 1931.
Jun 25, 1995 · Burger’s predecessor, Chief Justice Earl Warren, presided over one of the most liberal Supreme Courts in U.S. history. Nixon appointed Burger in the hope that his deference to “law and order” would reign in what many conservatives saw as liberal judicial activism.
The defendant claimed the law violated the First Amendment’s protection of freedom of religion, as sending children to school past the eighth grade was incompatible with their religious practices. Burger wrote the majority opinion for the unanimous decision, holding that the law violated the First Amendment.
Jun 9, 2024 · Kurtzman in 1971, when Burger devised a test for deciding if a law or public program that benefited a religion or religious beliefs was allowed under the First Amendment. But perhaps the Chief Justice’s highest-profile case was United States v.
Warren E. Burger (born Sept. 17, 1907, St. Paul, Minn., U.S.—died June 25, 1995, Washington, D.C.) was the 15th chief justice (1969–86) of the United States Supreme Court.
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One of the most famous of the Court’s rulings involving the conflict between religious freedom and state public schools came under Chief Justice Burger in 1972. It resulted in a victory for three Amish families in rural Wisconsin who were testing the guarantee of religious freedom.
Aug 5, 2023 · Chief Justice Warren E. Burger in his office at the Supreme Court in 1969. On religious liberty, for example, the Burger Court kept and extended many of the liberal Warren Court’s precedents outlawing state-sponsored religious exercises in public schools.
