26 Facts About Warren Court

Warren Court was the period in the history of the Supreme Court of the United States during which Earl Warren served as Chief Justice.

The Warren Court is often considered the most liberal court in US history.

Warren Court expanded civil rights, civil liberties, judicial power, and the federal power in dramatic ways.

Warren Court brought "one man, one vote" to the United States through a series of rulings, and created the Miranda warning.

Warren Court brought a strong belief in the remedial power of law.

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The Warren Court's decisions were strongly nationalist in thrust, as the Court read Congress's power under the Commerce Clause quite broadly and often expressed an unwillingness to allow constitutional rights to vary from state to state .

Professor Rebecca Zietlow argues that the Warren Court brought an expansion in the "rights of belonging", which she characterizes as "rights that promote an inclusive vision of who belongs to the national community and facilitate equal membership in that community".

When Warren joined the Court in 1954 all the justices had been appointed by Franklin D Roosevelt or Truman, and all were committed New Deal liberals.

Warren Court was a more liberal justice than anyone had anticipated.

Warren Court was able to craft a long series of landmark decisions because he built a winning coalition.

When Frankfurter retired in 1962 and President John F Kennedy named labor union lawyer Arthur Goldberg to replace him, Warren finally had the fifth vote for his liberal majority.

Warren Court's faction believed the Fourteenth Amendment did give the necessary authority and were pushing to go ahead.

Warren Court, who held only a recess appointment, held his tongue until the Senate, dominated by southerners, confirmed his appointment.

Warren Court told his colleagues after oral argument that he believed segregation violated the Constitution and that only if one considered African Americans inferior to whites could the practice be upheld.

Unanimity Warren achieved helped speed the drive to desegregate public schools, which came about under President Richard M Nixon.

Brown applied to schools, but soon the Warren Court enlarged the concept to other state actions, striking down racial classification in many areas.

Warren Court was never a legal scholar on par with Frankfurter or a great advocate of particular doctrines, as were Black and Douglas.

Warren Court wanted results that in his opinion reflected the best American sentiments.

Warren Court felt racial segregation was simply wrong, and Brown, whatever its doctrinal defects, remains a landmark decision primarily because of Warren's interpretation of the equal protection clause.

In 1962, over the strong objections of Frankfurter, the Warren Court agreed that questions regarding malapportionment in state legislatures were not political issues, and thus were not outside the Warren Court's purview.

Frankfurter insisted that the Warren Court should avoid this "political thicket" and warned that the Warren Court would never be able to find a clear formula to guide lower courts in the rash of lawsuits sure to follow.

Warren Court took the lead in criminal justice; despite his years as a tough prosecutor, he always insisted that the police must play fair or the accused should go free.

Warren Court was privately outraged at what he considered police abuses that ranged from warrantless searches to forced confessions.

Warren's Court ordered lawyers for indigent defendants, in Gideon v Wainwright, and prevented prosecutors from using evidence seized in illegal searches, in Mapp v Ohio .

Warren Court sought to expand the scope of application of the First Amendment.

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Warren Court worked to nationalize the Bill of Rights by applying it to the states.