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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... 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 School dean Roscoe Pound 88 Mason Ladd IO2 W. Willard ...
... 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 School dean Roscoe Pound 88 Mason Ladd IO2 W. Willard ...
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... Washington.10 Their uncle Ernest recalled that when the young Rutledge family had lived in Cloverport, ''Grandma Wigginton'' used to drive there from Mt. Washington ''in a horse-drawn buggy to see her grandchildren''— more than eighty ...
... Washington.10 Their uncle Ernest recalled that when the young Rutledge family had lived in Cloverport, ''Grandma Wigginton'' used to drive there from Mt. Washington ''in a horse-drawn buggy to see her grandchildren''— more than eighty ...
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... Washington, where he attended ''a one-room private school.'' Wiley also remembered happily the several weeks that he, Margaret, and his grandmother lived during the summer of with his Uncle Ernest and Aunt Bess in Waterford ...
... Washington, where he attended ''a one-room private school.'' Wiley also remembered happily the several weeks that he, Margaret, and his grandmother lived during the summer of with his Uncle Ernest and Aunt Bess in Waterford ...
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... Washington[, D.C.].'' Why Washington? We do not know. As it turned out, however, the head of the commercial department of the Bloomington, Indiana, high school sought a part-time teacher through Bowling Green, and Wiley accepted, for ...
... Washington[, D.C.].'' Why Washington? We do not know. As it turned out, however, the head of the commercial department of the Bloomington, Indiana, high school sought a part-time teacher through Bowling Green, and Wiley accepted, for ...
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... Washington, Kentucky, against a squatter's claim. So the young couple traveled in late July to Annabel's family home in Michigan, from which Wiley soon headed to Kentucky for the trial. After all the testimony, the judge ruled for the ...
... Washington, Kentucky, against a squatter's claim. So the young couple traveled in late July to Annabel's family home in Michigan, from which Wiley soon headed to Kentucky for the trial. After all the testimony, the judge ruled for the ...
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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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