1answer.
Ask question
Login Signup
Ask question
All categories
  • English
  • Mathematics
  • Social Studies
  • Business
  • History
  • Health
  • Geography
  • Biology
  • Physics
  • Chemistry
  • Computers and Technology
  • Arts
  • World Languages
  • Spanish
  • French
  • German
  • Advanced Placement (AP)
  • SAT
  • Medicine
  • Law
  • Engineering
Agata [3.3K]
3 years ago
12

In 1969 Nixon appointed Warren Burger as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. What notable cases did the Burger Court decide?

History
1 answer:
Drupady [299]3 years ago
8 0
After graduating with honours from St. Paul (now William Mitchell) College of Law in 1931, Burger joined a prominent St. Paul law firm and gradually became active in Republican Party politics. In 1953 he was appointed an assistant U.S. attorney general, and in 1955 he was nominated by President Dwight D. Eisenhower to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. Burger’s generally conservative approach during his 13-year service (1956–69) on the nation’s second highest court commended him to President Richard M. Nixon, who in 1969 named Burger to succeed Earl Warren as chief justice of the Supreme Court. He was quickly confirmed and in June 1969 was sworn in as the nation’s chief justice.
Contrary to some popular expectations, Burger and his three fellow Nixon-appointed justices did not try to reverse the tide of activist decision making on civil-rights issues and criminal law that was the Warren court’s chief legacy. The court upheld the 1966 Miranda decision, which required that a criminal suspect under arrest be informed of his rights, and the court also upheld busing as a permissible means of racially desegregating public schools and the use of racial quotas in the distribution of federal grants and contracts to minorities. Under Burger’s leadership the court did dilute several minor Warren-era decisions protecting the rights of criminal defendants, but the core of the Warren court’s legal precedents in this and other fields survived almost untouched. 
hope this helps
You might be interested in
How did Black slaves react to the declaration of war?
liq [111]

They watched the spectacle of whites marching away to war and the attendant fear of wives and mothers, people whom the slaves, in many cases, knew intimately; and they saw the grief that exploded when those same soldiers came home mangled or were sent home dead.

8 0
2 years ago
Read the quote below and answer the following question.
Ivanshal [37]
It must be c the sinking of the lusitania
7 0
3 years ago
What was the controversy surrounding the election of 1876?
Korolek [52]
What was the controversy surrounding the election of 1876?
8 0
3 years ago
Read 2 more answers
How did race and class shape women's experiences in the colonial societies of North and South America?
Liono4ka [1.6K]
For the answer to the question above, are you referring to colonial period?

because during the colonial period, European women in America remained entitled to the legal protections provided by imperial authorities, even when they occupied unfree statuses, such as indentured servitude. For instance, when masters or mistresses mistreated their indentured servant women physically violated the terms of their labor contracts, the servants had a right to complain at the local court for redress; in some jurisdictions, their pleas met with remedies from the bench. Nevertheless, patriarchal models of authority prevailed, and despite their access to the courts, indentured women remained restricted by a series of laws that gave their masters extensive powers over them. They could not marry or travel while under contract, and if they ran away, became pregnant, or challenged their masters, they would be penalized with extra terms of service. While the law in Virginia, for instance, penalized masters who impregnated their servant women by freeing the latter, at the same time the statute averred that such women might be unfairly “induced to lay all their illegitimate to their masters” in order to gain their freedom. The statutory language is clearly indicative of class-based notions of dissolute sexuality. Indeed, the statutes enacted across imperial North America, like those iterated above, were devoted to creating and enforcing differences among women on the basis of not only race but class as well.
8 0
3 years ago
President Jefferson argued that the job of deciding what the Constitution meant was best done by:
alukav5142 [94]

Answer:

elected leaders

Explanation:

8 0
3 years ago
Other questions:
  • Why did agricultural societies begin to develop in Oceania around 300 C.E.?
    12·1 answer
  • What were the origins of islam and what are its main beliefs ?
    6·2 answers
  • The powers of the federal government are
    10·2 answers
  • Place the events in the correct chronological order. Boston tea party, Intolerable acts, French and Indian war, and stamp act
    6·1 answer
  • What was the famous book that Hitler wrote in jail after being arrested for staging an uprising against the government?
    12·2 answers
  • To which group did the pilgrims belong?
    15·1 answer
  • Which European nation has the strongest economy?
    12·2 answers
  • 2)
    6·1 answer
  • What happened on September 11, 2001, and how did the George W. Bush administration respond in both domestic and foreign policy?
    7·2 answers
  • How is genetic variation measured? (I check for plagiarism so DONT)
    12·2 answers
Add answer
Login
Not registered? Fast signup
Signup
Login Signup
Ask question!