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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... Senator Hugo L. Black, IQ37 I34 Solicitor General Stanley F. Reed, January 17, 1938 136 Harvard law professor Felix Frankfurter 138 Irving Brant I40 President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Senator Lewis B. Schwellenbach 155 Senator George ...
... Senator Hugo L. Black, IQ37 I34 Solicitor General Stanley F. Reed, January 17, 1938 136 Harvard law professor Felix Frankfurter 138 Irving Brant I40 President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Senator Lewis B. Schwellenbach 155 Senator George ...
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... Senator William E. Borah of Idaho I62 SEC chairman William O. Douglas 168 “A Winning Daily Double” 169 U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, ca. 1939 175 Wiley Rutledge with Senator William H. King, March 28, 1939 176 ...
... Senator William E. Borah of Idaho I62 SEC chairman William O. Douglas 168 “A Winning Daily Double” 169 U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, ca. 1939 175 Wiley Rutledge with Senator William H. King, March 28, 1939 176 ...
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... La Follette entered the U.S. Senate, where he served until as the dominant political force in Wisconsin.3.. While still governor, La Follette prevailed on the Board of 2. Wisconsin, Indiana, North Carolina, New Mexico.
... La Follette entered the U.S. Senate, where he served until as the dominant political force in Wisconsin.3.. While still governor, La Follette prevailed on the Board of 2. Wisconsin, Indiana, North Carolina, New Mexico.
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... senators. And in late , pressed by Wilson, Congress itself made major statements, creating the Federal Reserve System and adopting the Underwood Tariff, the first downward revision of tariffs since the Civil War. In January ...
... senators. And in late , pressed by Wilson, Congress itself made major statements, creating the Federal Reserve System and adopting the Underwood Tariff, the first downward revision of tariffs since the Civil War. In January ...
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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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Salt of the Earth, Conscience of the Court: The Story of Justice Wiley Rutledge John M. Ferren Vista previa limitada - 2006 |
Salt of the Earth, Conscience of the Court: The Story of Justice Wiley Rutledge John M. Ferren,Wiley Rutledge Vista previa limitada - 2004 |
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