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The Warren Court was the period in the history of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1953 to 1969 when Earl Warren served as the chief justice. The Warren Court is often considered the most liberal court in U.S. history.
- Brief Biography of Earl Warren
- Warren and Judicial Power
- Racial Segregation and Judicial Power
- Equal Representation: ‘One Man, One Vote’
- Due Process and Rights of Defendants
- First Amendment Rights
Earl Warren was born on March 19, 1891, in Los Angele, California. In 1914, he graduated from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law and began his legal career in Oakland. Appointed as district attorney for Alameda County in 1925, he soon emerged as a leader in the state’s Republican Party and was elected as the attorney general of Ca...
Best known for his ability to manage the Supreme Court and win the support of his fellow justices, Chief Justice Warren was famous for wielding judicial power to force major social changes. When President Eisenhower appointed Warren as chief justice in 1953, the other eight justices were New Deal liberals appointed by Franklin D. Roosevelt or Harry...
In challenging the constitutionality of racial segregation of America’s public schools, Warren’s very first case, Brown v. Board of Education (1954), tested his leadership skills. Since the Court’s 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson ruling, racial segregation of schools had been allowed as long as “separate but equal” facilities were provided. In Brown v. Boa...
In the early 1960s, over the strong objections of Justice Felix Frankfurter, Warren convinced the Court that questions of the unequal representation of citizens in the state legislatures were not issues of politics and thus fell within the Court’s jurisdiction. For years, sparsely populated rural areas had been over-represented, leaving densely pop...
Again during the 1960s, the Warren Court delivered three landmark decisions expanding the constitutional due process rights of criminal defendants. Despite having been a prosecutor himself, Warren privately detested what he considered “police abuses” such as warrantless searches and forced confessions. In 1961, Mapp v. Ohio strengthened the Fourth ...
In two landmark decisions that continue to spark controversy today, the Warren Court expanded the scope of the First Amendmentby applying its protections to the actions of the states. The Warren Court’s 1962 decision in the case of Engel v. Vitale held that New York had violated the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment by officially authoriz...
- Robert Longley
The courts of appeals are established by Article IV, Section 1 of the Ohio Constitution, and their jurisdiction is outlined in Article IV, Section 3. As intermediate level appellate courts, their primary function is to hear appeals from the common pleas, municipal and county courts.
Ohio (1961) When police illegally searched Dollree Mapp's house for a fugitive, they found what was classified as obscene materials. On June 19, 1961, the Supreme Court determined, in a 6-3 decision, that the illegal search and seizure violated Mapp's Fourth Amendment rights.
Supreme Court. Justices 1803 to Present. As a joint research project of the Supreme Court of Ohio and the Ohio History Connection (formerly the Ohio Historical Society), biographies of Ohio's Supreme Court justices are not intended to be comprehensive histories of their life and times.
WARREN COURTIt was surely the best known Supreme Court in history, and probably the most controversial. Its grand themes—racial equality, reapportionment, the separation of religion and education, due process—became matters of public consciousness.
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The Warren Court, 1953-1969. Attorneys George E. C. Hayes, Thurgood Marshall, and James M. Nabrit, Jr. posed on the steps of the Supreme Court Building to celebrate the Court’s unanimous ruling in Brown v. Board of Education which found that racial segregation in public schools is unconstitutional.
