John Paul Stevens | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 05/12/2018

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John Paul Stevens


00:01:35 1 Life and career
00:01:44 1.1 Early life, 1920–1947
00:04:53 1.2 Legal career, 1947–1970
00:07:33 1.3 Judicial career, 1970–2010
00:10:39 1.4 Tenure and age
00:11:48 1.5 Political affiliation
00:12:42 2 Judicial philosophy
00:16:11 2.1 Freedom of speech
00:19:27 2.2 Establishment Clause
00:21:44 2.3 Commerce clause and states' rights
00:22:37 2.4 Fourth Amendment
00:24:44 2.5 Death penalty
00:27:17 3 Other significant opinions
00:27:27 3.1 iChevron/i
00:29:05 3.2 iCrawford v. Marion County Election Board/i
00:30:13 3.3 iBush v. Gore/i
00:31:23 3.4 Second Amendment
00:34:16 4 Books
00:35:08 5 Personal life
00:35:32 6 In popular culture



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John Paul Stevens (born April 20, 1920) is an American lawyer and jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1975 until his retirement in 2010. At the time of his retirement, he was the second-oldest serving justice in the history of the Court, the third-longest serving Supreme Court Justice in history. Stevens was considered to have been on the liberal side of the Court at the time of his retirement.Born in Chicago, Stevens served in the United States Navy during World War II and graduated from Northwestern University School of Law. After clerking for Justice Wiley Blount Rutledge, he co-founded a law firm in Chicago, focusing on antitrust law. In 1970, President Richard Nixon appointed Stevens to the Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. Five years later, President Gerald Ford successfully nominated Stevens to the Supreme Court to fill the vacancy caused by the retirement of Justice William O. Douglas. He became the senior Associate Justice after the retirement of Harry Blackmun in 1994. Stevens retired during the administration of President Barack Obama and was succeeded by Justice Elena Kagan.
Stevens's majority opinions in landmark cases include Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Apprendi v. New Jersey, Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, and Massachusetts v. EPA. Stevens is also known for his dissents in Texas v. Johnson, Bush v. Gore, D.C. v. Heller, and Citizens United v. FEC.