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Warren E. Burger. 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.
May 3, 2022 · May 3 2022, Published 5:13 p.m. ET. Source: Library of Congress. 1973 Supreme Court Justices from left to right, seated in the front row: Potter Stewart, William O. Douglas, Warren E. Burger ...
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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 foundation.
On May 23, 1969, President Richard Nixon nominated Burger to the U.S. Supreme Court. The Senate confirmed him on June 9 in a 74-3 vote, and he took the judicial oath two weeks later. Burger bridged the gap between the famously liberal Earl Warren and the staunchly conservative William Rehnquist. Burger voted with the majority of the Court in Roe v.
Aug 30, 2021 · The late Chief Justice Warren Burger died in 1995 at the age of 87, after a consequential career as a conservative head of the nation’s highest court and as the man who helped improve the modern ...
For example, the Burger Court established a good-faith exception to the exclusionary rule in criminal procedure, limiting this shield for defendants. Some observers thus have viewed the Burger Court as a transitional or moderate phase between the liberal Warren Court and the conservative Rehnquist Court. Associate Justices on the Burger Court:
Dec 20, 2023 · Warren Earl Burger was born in St. Paul on September 17, 1907, and in 1931 earned his LL.B. from the St. Paul College of Law (now the William Mitchell College of Law). He went on to serve as an assistant attorney general for President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who in 1956 appointed him to the District of Columbia Circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals.
