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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... reported—acknowledging that there was no legal precedent for the charge —Yamashita would be tried criminally for '''negligence in allowing his subordinates to commit atrocities.''' MacArthur also decided to try forthwith Lieutenant ...
... reported—acknowledging that there was no legal precedent for the charge —Yamashita would be tried criminally for '''negligence in allowing his subordinates to commit atrocities.''' MacArthur also decided to try forthwith Lieutenant ...
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... reported: have—yea, verily, profitable times. Many are the ephemeral fowls of the air consumed by us, purloined in the cause of suffering humanity.''' Rutledge held the office of '''Forager.''' By shotgun or thievery? We are not told.39 ...
... reported: have—yea, verily, profitable times. Many are the ephemeral fowls of the air consumed by us, purloined in the cause of suffering humanity.''' Rutledge held the office of '''Forager.''' By shotgun or thievery? We are not told.39 ...
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... reported that Wiley had invited his victim to join in a train ride to Knoxville for a visit to the purported Rutledge home there. Upon their arrival, Wiley led his friend ''to the palatial home of Gen. Cary Spence,'' then ''told him to ...
... reported that Wiley had invited his victim to join in a train ride to Knoxville for a visit to the purported Rutledge home there. Upon their arrival, Wiley led his friend ''to the palatial home of Gen. Cary Spence,'' then ''told him to ...
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... reported, ''Dean Rutledge's friends say that he acquired many of his sociological views from the elder La Follette, while a student at Wisconsin.'' Wiley never confirmed this in correspondence, but there has to be some truth to it. He ...
... reported, ''Dean Rutledge's friends say that he acquired many of his sociological views from the elder La Follette, while a student at Wisconsin.'' Wiley never confirmed this in correspondence, but there has to be some truth to it. He ...
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... reported, the ''whole school has an atmosphere of wealth about it.''9 That atmosphere had to leave Wiley feeling more than a tad nervous, for money was hardly his long suit. Within a few days of his arrival he wrote to Annabel, ''My ...
... reported, the ''whole school has an atmosphere of wealth about it.''9 That atmosphere had to leave Wiley feeling more than a tad nervous, for money was hardly his long suit. Within a few days of his arrival he wrote to Annabel, ''My ...
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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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Salt of the Earth, Conscience of the Court: The Story of Justice Wiley Rutledge John M. Ferren Vista previa limitada - 2006 |
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