Salt of the earth, conscience of the court : the story of Justice Wiley Rutledge /
The Kentucky-born son of a Baptist preacher Supreme Court Justice Wiley Rutledge (1894-1949) became one of the Court's leading liberal activists and a supporter of racial equality, free speech, and church-state separation. Drawing on over 160 interviews, John M. Ferren provides a valuable analy...
| Основен автор: | Ferren, John M., (Author) |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Chapel Hill ; London :
The University of North Carolina Press,
[2004].
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http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=151760 |
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Salt of the earth, conscience of the court. |
Съдържание:
- Kentucky and Tennessee
- Wisconsin, Indiana, North Carolina, New Mexico
- Colorado
- St. Louis : high standards and a "big heart"
- St. Louis : a public liberal
- Legal philosophy
- Iowa City : innovation and influence
- Iowa City : support for minorities, legal aid, and court-packing
- Roosevelt's first court vacancies : Van Devanter, Sutherland, Cardozo
- The Brandeis vacancy
- Court of Appeals years : adjustment and impending World War
- Court of Appeals years : judicial approach and outside interests
- The Byrnes vacancy
- The new justice
- Denaturalized citizenship, West Coast curfew, and Japanese-American internment
- First Amendment freedoms
- Acrimony in the court
- The Selective Service, price control, and agency review
- War crimes and military commissions
- A new chief, Jackson's blast from Nuremberg, and the striking mine workers
- A more seasoned justice, sharp divides over criminal procedure
- State courts, the Bill of Rights, and access to federal courts
- The commerce clause and equal protection
- The Justice's world view
- Last term
- Last days : the man and the Justice remembered.