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Burger was confirmed by the Senate on June 9, 1969 and was sworn into office on June 23, 1969. He served as Chief Justice until he retired on September 26, 1986 and was succeeded by William Rehnquist. Burger became Chief Justice only because the Senate had blocked the nomination of then-Associate Justice Abe Fortas to succeed Warren as Chief ...
The Burger Court was the period in the history of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1969 to 1986, when Warren E. Burger served as Chief Justice of the United States. Burger succeeded Earl Warren as Chief Justice after the latter's retirement, and served as Chief Justice until his retirement, at which point William Rehnquist was ...
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.
Sep 24, 2014 · New York, September 24, 2014— Many scholars have written off the legacy of the late U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren E. Burger, in large part because the criminal procedure rulings in favor of defendants that he criticized prior to taking the bench in 1969 were still technically in place when he stepped down in 1986.
May 29, 2018 · ( b. 17 September 1907 in Saint Paul, Minnesota; d. 25 June 1995 in Washington, D.C.), lawyer, jurist, and chief justice of the United States (1969–1986) who helped to move the Supreme Court away from its liberalism of the 1960s.
Jul 6, 2016 · Burger served as chief justice of the Supreme Court from 1969 until 1986. Linda Greenhouse, author of The Burger Court, says those years helped establish the court's conservative legal...
