Salt of the Earth, Conscience of the Court: The Story of Justice Wiley RutledgeUniv of North Carolina Press, 2006 M03 8 - 592 páginas The Kentucky-born son of a Baptist preacher, with an early tendency toward racial prejudice, Supreme Court Justice Wiley Rutledge (1894-1949) became one of the Court's leading liberal activists and an early supporter of racial equality, free speech, and church-state separation. Drawing on more than 160 interviews, John M. Ferren provides a valuable analysis of Rutledge's life and judicial decisionmaking and offers the most comprehensive explanation to date for the Supreme Court nominations of Rutledge, Felix Frankfurter, and William O. Douglas. Rutledge was known for his compassion and fairness. He opposed discrimination based on gender and poverty and pressed for expanded rights to counsel, due process, and federal review of state criminal convictions. During his brief tenure on the Court (he died following a stroke at age fifty-five), he contributed significantly to enhancing civil liberties and the rights of naturalized citizens and criminal defendants, became the Court's most coherent expositor of the commerce clause, and dissented powerfully from military commission convictions of Japanese generals after World War II. Through an examination of Rutledge's life, Ferren highlights the development of American common law and legal education, the growth of the legal profession and related institutions, and the evolution of the American court system, including the politics of judicial selection. |
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... American invasion was imminent.” Less than two weeks later, General MacArthur landed on Leyte Island midway along the Philippine archipelago while the Pacific Fleet was crippling the Japanese navy in Leyte Gulf. General Yamashita ...
... American invasion was imminent.” Less than two weeks later, General MacArthur landed on Leyte Island midway along the Philippine archipelago while the Pacific Fleet was crippling the Japanese navy in Leyte Gulf. General Yamashita ...
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... Americans were advancing, but by midFebruary he realized the situation and, for the second time, ordered the Japanese ... American attacks until September , , when he surrendered all Japan's forces remaining on Luzon.5 O A ...
... Americans were advancing, but by midFebruary he realized the situation and, for the second time, ordered the Japanese ... American attacks until September , , when he surrendered all Japan's forces remaining on Luzon.5 O A ...
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... American occupation force becomes a criminal every time an American soldier violates the law. . . . Clarke accordingly was suggesting—to use a more recent example to emphasize the point—that under the prosecution's theory (as a number ...
... American occupation force becomes a criminal every time an American soldier violates the law. . . . Clarke accordingly was suggesting—to use a more recent example to emphasize the point—that under the prosecution's theory (as a number ...
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... Americans prevailed against those who opposed it, and by the s African American graduates of Maryville were working, teaching, and preaching in eight states. Others followed until , when the Tennessee legislature barred ...
... Americans prevailed against those who opposed it, and by the s African American graduates of Maryville were working, teaching, and preaching in eight states. Others followed until , when the Tennessee legislature barred ...
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... American students for two years in the local high school. The young couple wanted to move into a house as soon as possible, as well as find a way to save money. To these ends, the two ventured creatively into real estate. They sold ...
... American students for two years in the local high school. The young couple wanted to move into a house as soon as possible, as well as find a way to save money. To these ends, the two ventured creatively into real estate. They sold ...
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Part III Judge 19391949 | 171 |
Notes | 423 |
Sources | 511 |
Acknowledgments | 543 |
Index of Subjects | 549 |
Index of Cases | 570 |
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