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Burger became Chief Justice only because the Senate had blocked the nomination of then-Associate Justice Abe Fortas to succeed Warren as Chief Justice in the previous year. Fortas then became embroiled in a scandal that forced him to resign from the Court nine days before Burger was nominated.
No women served on the Supreme Court until 1981, and Burger was strongly opposed to giving a seat to a female judge. In 1971, President Nixon considered nominating Mildred Lillie to the Supreme Court.
In the eleven years following, under state laws revised to accord with Supreme Court rulings, more than 90 persons convicted of violent crimes were put to death. When Warren Burger stepped down in 1986, he had served longer than any Chief Justice appointed in the 20th century.
Warren E. Burger died on June 15, 1995 of congestive heart failure at age 87. During his 17 years as Chief Justice, he drew upon his work ethic to improve the efficiency of the judicial branch, preserve the Court’s history, preside over an enormous workload at the Court, and issue several landmark opinions.
Burger retired from the Supreme Court in 1986 to devote himself full-time to the chairmanship of the commission planning the bicentennial celebration of the U.S. constitution (1987). He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1988.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
In 1969, President Richard Nixon appointed Warren Burger as the replacement for the retiring Earl Warren. Warren had attempted to retire in 1968, but President Lyndon B. Johnson 's nomination of Associate Justice Abe Fortas as Chief Justice was successfully filibustered by Senate Republicans.
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Jun 9, 2024 · On June 9, 1969, a near-unanimous Senate confirmed federal judge Warren Burger as Chief Justice of the United States, starting a 17-year tenure marked by landmark Court decisions.
