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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... trial of General Yamashita 7 Mary Lou and the Reverend Wiley Blount Rutledge Sr. with Margaret and Wiley Jr. I4 Grandma Wigginton and grandson Wiley Jr. 16 Wiley Rutledge at Maryville College 20 Football at Maryville College, 1911 2I ...
... trial of General Yamashita 7 Mary Lou and the Reverend Wiley Blount Rutledge Sr. with Margaret and Wiley Jr. I4 Grandma Wigginton and grandson Wiley Jr. 16 Wiley Rutledge at Maryville College 20 Football at Maryville College, 1911 2I ...
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... trial 307 “All you have to do is to pull it together again, Fred” 327 John L. Lewis 330 Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson 332 Ensign John Paul Stevens, ca. IQ42–45 339 Louis H. Pollak 366 James F. Byrnes, Harry S. Truman, and Henry A ...
... trial 307 “All you have to do is to pull it together again, Fred” 327 John L. Lewis 330 Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson 332 Ensign John Paul Stevens, ca. IQ42–45 339 Louis H. Pollak 366 James F. Byrnes, Harry S. Truman, and Henry A ...
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... trial. Eventually, the secretary of war and the attorney general, as well as the Joint Chiefs of Staff, concluded that military commanders had authority to try suspected war criminals before military commissions established under ...
... trial. Eventually, the secretary of war and the attorney general, as well as the Joint Chiefs of Staff, concluded that military commanders had authority to try suspected war criminals before military commissions established under ...
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... trial of the German high commandin Nuremberg. As to crimes suitable for trialbefore a military commission, the U.S. War Crimes Office in the Department of the Judge Advocate General offered suggestions to MacArthur, whose deputy chief ...
... trial of the German high commandin Nuremberg. As to crimes suitable for trialbefore a military commission, the U.S. War Crimes Office in the Department of the Judge Advocate General offered suggestions to MacArthur, whose deputy chief ...
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... Trial was scheduled for October .9 Three days before trial, the prosecution—which had reserved the right to file additional charges—served defense counsel with fifty-nine more. The defense moved for a continuance. It was denied. The ...
... Trial was scheduled for October .9 Three days before trial, the prosecution—which had reserved the right to file additional charges—served defense counsel with fifty-nine more. The defense moved for a continuance. It was denied. 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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