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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... University of Colorado School of Law graduate 48 Washington University School of Law faculty members, 1930 61 Washington University chancellor George R. Throop 65 State University of Iowa president Eugene A. Gilmore 81 Harvard Law ...
... University of Colorado School of Law graduate 48 Washington University School of Law faculty members, 1930 61 Washington University chancellor George R. Throop 65 State University of Iowa president Eugene A. Gilmore 81 Harvard Law ...
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... universities for Wiley outside Tennessee; the educational universe simply did not extend further. Consideration had been given to the state university at Knoxville, but Wiley feared its size. There would be greater comfort at home near ...
... universities for Wiley outside Tennessee; the educational universe simply did not extend further. Consideration had been given to the state university at Knoxville, but Wiley feared its size. There would be greater comfort at home near ...
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... University of Wisconsin at Madison. Annabel, too, decided to leave Maryville to join her former Greek instructor and mentor on the faculty of Grove City College in Pennsylvania. Wiley and Annabel had an understanding, however, that ...
... University of Wisconsin at Madison. Annabel, too, decided to leave Maryville to join her former Greek instructor and mentor on the faculty of Grove City College in Pennsylvania. Wiley and Annabel had an understanding, however, that ...
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... university, chartered in , was at the center of the city's cultural life. Wisconsin's founders had been political ''Barnburners''—originally upstate New York reform Democrats who reputedly were willing to burn their barns to ...
... university, chartered in , was at the center of the city's cultural life. Wisconsin's founders had been political ''Barnburners''—originally upstate New York reform Democrats who reputedly were willing to burn their barns to ...
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... University. He did so, he later wrote, with a view to preparing for civil service examinations, ''thinking that by securing such an appointment'' he ''might be able to enter a law school . . . in Washington[, D.C.].'' Why Washington? We ...
... University. He did so, he later wrote, with a view to preparing for civil service examinations, ''thinking that by securing such an appointment'' he ''might be able to enter a law school . . . in Washington[, D.C.].'' Why Washington? We ...
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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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