Earl Warren
Overview
Earl Warren was the 14th Chief Justice of the United States
Chief Justice of the United States
The Chief Justice of the United States is the head of the United States federal court system and the chief judge of the Supreme Court of the United States. The Chief Justice is one of nine Supreme Court justices; the other eight are the Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States...

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He is known for the sweeping decisions of the Warren Court, which ended school segregation and transformed many areas of American law, especially regarding the rights of the accused, ending public-school-sponsored prayer, and requiring "one-man-one vote" rules of apportionment. He made the Court a power center on a more even base with Congress and the presidency especially through four landmark decisions: Brown v. Board of Education
Brown v. Board of Education
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 347 U.S. 483 , was a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court that declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students unconstitutional. The decision overturned the Plessy v. Ferguson decision of 1896 which...

(1954), Gideon v. Wainwright
Gideon v. Wainwright
Gideon v. Wainwright, , is a landmark case in United States Supreme Court history. In the case, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that state courts are required under the Sixth Amendment of the Constitution to provide counsel in criminal cases for defendants who are unable to afford their own...

(1963), Reynolds v. Sims
Reynolds v. Sims
Reynolds v. Sims, 377 U.S. 533 was a United States Supreme Court case that ruled that state legislature districts had to be roughly equal in population.-Facts:...

(1964), and Miranda v. Arizona
Miranda v. Arizona
Miranda v. Arizona, , was a landmark 5–4 decision of the United States Supreme Court. The Court held that both inculpatory and exculpatory statements made in response to interrogation by a defendant in police custody will be admissible at trial only if the prosecution can show that the defendant...

(1966).

Warren is one of only two people to be elected Governor of California
Governor of California
The Governor of California is the chief executive of the California state government, whose responsibilities include making annual State of the State addresses to the California State Legislature, submitting the budget, and ensuring that state laws are enforced...

 three times, the other being Jerry Brown
Jerry Brown
Edmund Gerald "Jerry" Brown, Jr. is an American politician. Brown served as the 34th Governor of California , and is currently serving as the 39th California Governor...

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Quotations

Legislators represent people, not trees or acres. Legislators are elected by voters, not farms or cities or economic interests.

Reynolds v. Sims|Reynolds v. Sims, on the subject of State Senate apportionment.

I always turn to the sports section first. The sports section records people's accomplishments; the front page nothing but man's failures.

Reported in Sports Illustrated|Sports Illustrated, July 22, 1968. Variants:I always turn to the sports page first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures. I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.

We conclude that, in the field of public education, the doctrine of "separate but equal" has no place. Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.

wikisource:Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954)|Brown v. Board of Education (17 May 1954)

Legislators represent people, not trees or acres. Legislators are elected by voters, not farms or cities or economic interests

wikisource:Reynolds v. Sims|Reynolds v. Sims (1964); on the subject of State Senate apportionment.

We may not know the whole story in our lifetime.

On the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, quoted in Minute by Minute (1985)

 
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