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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... president Eugene A. Gilmore 81 Harvard Law School dean Roscoe Pound 88 Mason Ladd IO2 W. Willard Wirtz IO4 State University of Iowa dean Wiley Rutledge Io9 “Historical Figures” 126 Justice Owen J. Roberts, May 2, 1938 129 Senator Hugo L ...
... president Eugene A. Gilmore 81 Harvard Law School dean Roscoe Pound 88 Mason Ladd IO2 W. Willard Wirtz IO4 State University of Iowa dean Wiley Rutledge Io9 “Historical Figures” 126 Justice Owen J. Roberts, May 2, 1938 129 Senator Hugo L ...
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... President Roosevelt's last appointee to the Court three years earlier—penned a dissent. The votes of only four justices are required to grant review, and after a final conference on December four of the brethren—Hugo Black, Frank ...
... President Roosevelt's last appointee to the Court three years earlier—penned a dissent. The votes of only four justices are required to grant review, and after a final conference on December four of the brethren—Hugo Black, Frank ...
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... president Charles R. Van Hise, who furthered the philosophy—eventually known as the ''Wisconsin idea''—that teaching ... President Taft and the ''Bull Moose'' candidacy of former President Roosevelt, had begun to launch the ''New Freedom ...
... president Charles R. Van Hise, who furthered the philosophy—eventually known as the ''Wisconsin idea''—that teaching ... President Taft and the ''Bull Moose'' candidacy of former President Roosevelt, had begun to launch the ''New Freedom ...
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... President Van Hise—a subject that Rutledge the justice later wrote about. A newspaper once reported, ''Dean Rutledge's friends say that he acquired many of his sociological views from the elder La Follette, while a student at Wisconsin ...
... President Van Hise—a subject that Rutledge the justice later wrote about. A newspaper once reported, ''Dean Rutledge's friends say that he acquired many of his sociological views from the elder La Follette, while a student at Wisconsin ...
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... president Charles W. Eliot appointed Christopher Columbus Langdell as dean of the law school, which he led for the next twenty-five years. Born in rural New Hampshire, Langdell attended Philips Exeter Academy, Harvard College, and ...
... president Charles W. Eliot appointed Christopher Columbus Langdell as dean of the law school, which he led for the next twenty-five years. Born in rural New Hampshire, Langdell attended Philips Exeter Academy, Harvard College, and ...
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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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