Earl Warren was the 14th Chief Justice of the United States. The segregation of schools was declared unconstitutional under Warren’s first term on the bench. Earl ruled that evidence illegally obtained could not be used in federal court. The Warren Court ruled that wages could not be garnished without a hearing. Many Americans do not even know who Earl Warren is, even though Warren played a part in many personal and civil rights cases.
1. Earl Warren’s parents were immigrants from Sweden. Earl Warren was born March 19, 1891 in Los Angeles,CA. Earl Warren’s father Mathias H. Warren was a Swedish immigrant along with his mom
Crystal (Fox,2006). Mathias Warren worked for Southern Pacific Railroad until he was blacklisted for joining a strike
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A lot of good things went Warrens way along with some bad things. Earl Warren and his family moved to Bakersfield, CA. Earls father Mathias was murdered by an unknown person during a robbery (Fox,2006). Warren graduated from the University of California Berkeley with a B.A. in political science (Smentkowski,1998). In 1917 Earl rose to the rank of lieutenant while serving in World War 1 before being discharged in 1918 (Smentkowski,1998)
4. Earl Warren attended multiple colleges.After earning his B.A. in political science, he earned his J.D. at the University of California and Berkeley School of Law (Fox,2006). Earl’s father funded him through college even though Earl had worked a summer job every year since age 9 (Fox,2006). After he graduated Warren worked in law offices in Oakland and San Francisco (Smentkowski,1998). In 1914 Earl was admitted to the California bar.
5. Earls law career took off around 1925. In 1920 Earl took a position with the Alameda County district attorney’s office located in Oakland (Fox,2006). He was re-elected as district attorney in 1925 and then through 1938, when he got elected Attorney General of California (Fox,2006). While attorney, general he advocated for the detention of Japanese Americans during World War 2 (biography.com Editors,n.d.). In 1942 he won governorship of
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Warren was elected to three four-year terms during his time as the Alameda County district attorney. The Warren Court overruled the 1896 supreme court who ruled racial segregation acceptable (Grace,1999). Lyndon Johnson formed the “Warren commision” to investigate if the assassination of John Kennedy was a conspiracy (Grace,1999). Warren court focused on voting rights, criminal justice, education and transportation (Whitman,2010). The Warren court extended boundaries of free speech, outlawed school segregation, stated wages could not be garnished without a hearing, and cured wiretapping (Whitman,2010)
7. Warren becomes chief of justice September 8, 1953. Earl Warren’s first term on the bench, he spoke unanimously for the court in the case Brown v. board, declaring the separation of public schools unconstitutional (Smentkowski,1998). Earl Warren also rejected “separate but equal” doctrine that prevailed since Plessy v. Ferguson (Smentkowski,1998). Earl Warren ruled that police, must inform you of your rights before questioning a criminal suspect (Smentkowski,1998). Earl Warren and the supreme court stated that evidence illegally obtained could not be used in federal court (Biography.com
First, I will discuss his background, which started when he was born on April 16, 1931 in McCracken County Kentucky. His parents were Elvie B. and Eva Heady Carroll. His father was a farmer and a tractor implement salesman, he also owned a garage. In 1937, the family moved to Heath Kentucky he attended Heath high school and was later elected student body president. After graduating high school Senator Carroll attended Paducah Junior College. In 1951, he and his girlfriend Charlann Harting were married and started their family of what would eventually be four children. One year later he graduated from Paducah Junior College with an associate of arts degree.
Board of Education was a United States Supreme Court case in 1954 that the court declared state laws to establish separate public schools for black segregated public schools to be unconstitutional. Brown v. Board of Education was filed against the Topeka, Kansas school board by plaintiff Oliver Brown, parent of one of the children that access was denied to Topeka’s none colored schools. Brown claimed that Topeka 's racial segregation violated the Constitution 's Equal Protection Clause because, the city 's black and white schools were not equal to each other. However, the court dismissed and claimed and clarified that segregated public schools were "substantially" equal enough to be constitutional under the Plessy doctrine. After hearing what the court had said to Brown he decided to appeal the Supreme Court. When Chief Justice Earl Warren stepped in the court spoke in an unanimous decision written by Warren himself stating that, racial segregation of children in public schools violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, which states that "no state shall make or enforce any law which shall ... deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws." Also congress noticed that the Amendment did not prohibit integration and that the Fourteenth Amendment guarantees equal education to both black and white students. Since the supreme court noticed this issue they had to focus on racial equality and galvanized and developed civil
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Earl Warren is considered a leader in American politics and law in the 20th century. Warren was the governor of California and during his time was able to secure many major reform legislations that helped modernize hospital systems, prisons, and highways. His time as governor also led to the expansion of the old-age and unemployment benefits. In 1953, he became the 14th Chief of Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. As Chief of Justice, he was able to rewrite much of the corpus of constitutional law. His most famous case as Chief of Justice was Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka. This case ruled that segregation in schools was unconstitutional since it did not give equal protection under the law to African Americans. Although the court was divided at first, his efforts were able to gain a unanimous decision. His court also sought out electoral reforms, equality in criminal justice and the defense of human rights. In 1963, Gideon v. Wainwright was a major case that sought equality in criminal justice. This case required counsel in court for defendants even if they could not afford
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