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Article: Warren Burger: portrait of a legal titan.(former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court)
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- USA TODAY
- Article date:
- November 1, 1995
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The late Chief Justice's stance on crime and punishment was rational, evenhanded, and at odds with much of recent inflammatory rhetoric.
It is increasingly clear that Warren Burger, the former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court who died on June 25, 1995, made an indelible imprint on the American justice system during his 17-year tenure. When he was chosen for the nation's highest legal post by Pres. Richard Nixon in 1969, Burger was the leader of the conservative wing of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, to which he had been named by Pres. Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Nixon probably expected Burger to hew to the conservative line of judicial thinking, even ...