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...awaiting trial because of the double impact of the California Communist decisions and the Jencks decision (TIME, June 17) requiring the Government to allow defendants to see pertinent FBI files-or drop the case. If anyone doubted before, last week made it clear that the Supreme Court under Earl Warren was building a new wing to the temple of American law-even at the cost of razing an old wing, hard-built...
Legal-Eagle Eyes. The new look for the law began soon after Earl Warren came out of his successful California political career (see box) to become Chief Justice. His first major opinion was in the memorable school desegregation case, and he was joined in it by all his brethren on the court. But while millions cheered the result, many lawyers had an uneasy feeling that it hung on too much sociological ballooning and not enough legal ballast. More than a year ago sharp legal-eagle eyes began to open wide at signs of changes to come. The Warren court reversed...
...Supreme Court change is more than one of mere personality. Mr. Dooley was just being Mr. Dooley when he said that the court follows the election returns, but in a far broader sense the court does change with the political climate. When Earl Warren stepped up to the nation's highest bench, Stalinist aggression had produced a violent, often excessive U.S. reaction, most sharply expressed in the face and form of Senator Joseph Raymond McCarthy. Now McCarthy is dead, having outlived his ism, and the face of Nikita Khrushchev beams from U.S. television screens. Previous Supreme Courts had upheld...
...Earl Warren, 66, appointed Chief Justice by President Eisenhower in 1953. Son of a railroad worker, raised in Bakersfield, Calif., took his law degree at the University of California (1912). He became Alameda County (Oakland) district attorney in 1925, quickly made a name as a racket-buster, was elected state attorney general in 1938, but his courtroom experience nevertheless was limited. Republican Warren was elected California's governor three times with labor as well as business support, was a good, if plodding administrator, endeared himself to the faculty of the University of California by standing firm against loyalty oaths...
Last week the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the Watkins conviction 6-1 (Whittaker not participating)-and an often emotional opinion by Chief Justice Earl Warren meandered over most of the constitutional landscape while throwing up fences against the power of congressional investigation...