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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... letter he indicated obvious affection for his other ''great-aunt 'Sal.''' Wiley also expressed affection for ''poor old Uncle Jim,'' his great-uncle—the unexplained ''black sheep'' of the Lovell family—with whom he used to Kentucky and ...
... letter he indicated obvious affection for his other ''great-aunt 'Sal.''' Wiley also expressed affection for ''poor old Uncle Jim,'' his great-uncle—the unexplained ''black sheep'' of the Lovell family—with whom he used to Kentucky and ...
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... we lack the obvious avenue to his thoughts and experiences at the time. But given their commitment to each other and their subsequent letter-writing patterns when apart, Wiley more than likely wrote to Preparation, –
... we lack the obvious avenue to his thoughts and experiences at the time. But given their commitment to each other and their subsequent letter-writing patterns when apart, Wiley more than likely wrote to Preparation, –
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The Story of Justice Wiley Rutledge John M. Ferren. quent letter-writing patterns when apart, Wiley more than likely ... letters would pour in to him from friends at Maryville and every other place he had lived— except Madison. Rutledge's ...
The Story of Justice Wiley Rutledge John M. Ferren. quent letter-writing patterns when apart, Wiley more than likely ... letters would pour in to him from friends at Maryville and every other place he had lived— except Madison. Rutledge's ...
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... and employers and eventually received an offer from the Champaign, Illinois, public schools meeting his terms.11 By May , as the Illinois superintendent's letter was arriving, Preparation, –
... and employers and eventually received an offer from the Champaign, Illinois, public schools meeting his terms.11 By May , as the Illinois superintendent's letter was arriving, Preparation, –
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... letter was arriving, Wiley was spitting up blood. He consulted with the doctor in Asheville who had treated his mother, and by July he had entered the state sanatorium, located near Aberdeen in North Carolina's Piedmont section. While ...
... letter was arriving, Wiley was spitting up blood. He consulted with the doctor in Asheville who had treated his mother, and by July he had entered the state sanatorium, located near Aberdeen in North Carolina's Piedmont section. While ...
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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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