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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... 4 3 2 1 Frontispiece: Justice Wiley Rutledge upon joining the Supreme Court. (Photograph by Harris and Ewing; Collection of the Supreme Court of the United States, 1943.8.2) For Linda, who makes all the difference This page intentionally.
... 4 3 2 1 Frontispiece: Justice Wiley Rutledge upon joining the Supreme Court. (Photograph by Harris and Ewing; Collection of the Supreme Court of the United States, 1943.8.2) For Linda, who makes all the difference This page intentionally.
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... joined in with them.''15 It is not clear how often young Wiley and his sister saw their father during the first two years after their mother died. The Reverend Rutledge did not—probably could not—follow his children back to Kentucky. He ...
... joined in with them.''15 It is not clear how often young Wiley and his sister saw their father during the first two years after their mother died. The Reverend Rutledge did not—probably could not—follow his children back to Kentucky. He ...
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... joining the war raging abroad. Two months later, as the young Rutledges were preparing to begin their lives together in Albuquerque, Wiley was thrilled to be joined, finally, with Annabel. But he felt more than a little ashamed about ...
... joining the war raging abroad. Two months later, as the young Rutledges were preparing to begin their lives together in Albuquerque, Wiley was thrilled to be joined, finally, with Annabel. But he felt more than a little ashamed about ...
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... joined Wiley in Albuquerque sometime before Christmas. Upon disembarking from the train and seeing the dry, barren country she burst into tears. Butsurely heremotions were overwhelmed, even more, by seeing her husband—finally. Wiley ...
... joined Wiley in Albuquerque sometime before Christmas. Upon disembarking from the train and seeing the dry, barren country she burst into tears. Butsurely heremotions were overwhelmed, even more, by seeing her husband—finally. Wiley ...
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... joined a lawsuit with other Wiggintons to quiet (settle) title to the family farm at Mt. 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 ...
... joined a lawsuit with other Wiggintons to quiet (settle) title to the family farm at Mt. 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 ...
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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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