Warren E. Burger
Warren E. Burger
Warren Earl Burgerwas the 15th Chief Justice of the United States from 1969 to 1986. Although Burger was a conservative, the U.S. Supreme Court delivered a variety of liberal decisions on abortion, capital punishment, religious establishment, and school desegregation during his tenure...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJudge
Date of Birth17 September 1907
CountryUnited States of America
history scales communicate
The right of every person "to be let alone" must be placed in the scales with the right of others to communicate.
objectivity president needs
The president's need for complete candor and objectivity from advisers calls for great deference from the courts.
life mind able
[No one will be able to] deter the scientific mind from probing into the unknown any more than Canute could command the tides.
trials poverty judgment
A far greater factor than abolishing poverty is the deterrent effect of swift and certain consequences: swift arrest, prompt trial, certain penalty and - at some point - finality of judgment.
taken two hearing
It is indeed an odd business that it has taken this Court nearly two centuries to discover a constitutional mandate to have counsel at a preliminary hearing.
confidence warrior gun
Doctors still retain a high degree of public confidence because they are perceived as healers. Should lawyers not be healers? Healers, not warriors? Healers, not procurers? Healers, not hired guns?
justice guilt trials
Guilt or innocence becomes irrelevant in the criminal trials as we flounder in a morass of artificial rules poorly conceived and often impossible [to apply].
editing editors choices
For better or worse, editing is what editors are for; and editing is selection and choice of material. That editors newspaper or broadcast can and do abuse this power is beyond doubt, but that is no reason to deny the discretion Congress provided.
christian religious tolerance
The Constitution does not require complete separation of church and state; it affirmatively mandates accommodation, not merely tolerance, of all religions, and forbids hostility toward any.
prayer practice doubt
There can be no doubt that the practice of opening legislative sessions with prayer has become part of the fabric of our society.
taken church momentum
[I]n constitutional adjudication some steps, which when taken were thought to approach 'the verge,' have become the platform for yet further steps. A certain momentum develops in constitutional theory and it can be a 'downhill thrust' easily set in motion but difficult to retard or stop.
ability carries freedom
Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.
basis pressures public rule totally
Judges rule on the basis of law, not public opinion, and they should be totally indifferent to pressures of the times.
judges large roaming
We may have lured judges into roaming at large in the constitutional field.