Earl Warren

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'''Earl Warren''' was a [[United States]] [[Supreme Court of the United States|Supreme Court]] Chief Justice from 1953 to 1969, appointed by President [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]].<ref>Rumours abound that Eisenhower privately commented that selecting Earl Warren was the worst mistake of his presidency; [http://books.google.ca/books?id=jO2gLXNNa2wC&pg=PA604&lpg=PA604&dq=Jean+Edward+Smith+warren&source=bl&ots=Tv8b5tz4DN&sig=rQ9Jk_TvNXWiLyL6zJNGgtY0ZME&hl=en&sa=X&ei=itNjU9yrKI2yyATSkoKQBw&ved=0CDgQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=The%20problem%20is%20that%20Eisenhower%20never%20said%20great%20mistake&f=false the quote is disputed.] (Regardless, most scholars consider it his greatest moment.)</ref> Originally considered to be a slightly [[conservative]] pick, he became a [[lightning rod]] for abuse by [[segregation]]ists and [[racist]]s when his court unanimously struck down segregation in American [[public school]]s in ''[[Brown v. Board of Education]]''.

The Warren Court was synonymous with "[[judicial activism]]" for many [[wingnut]]s. There was even a movement by the [[John Birch Society]] to [[impeach]] Warren, but it did not succeed.

Prior to serving on the Supreme Court, he was the three term governor of California where he showed his credentials as a [[Rockefeller Republican]] by instituting [[New Deal]]-esque programs in the state, making him an incredibly popular governor. This led to his selection as the vice presidential candidate for the GOP in 1948 running alongside [[Thomas Dewey]], another liberal Republican. Despite the ticket being expected to win, [[Dewey Defeats Truman|it did not]].

In 1963 Warren was the chairman of ''The President's commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy'' (The Warren Commission), which was established to investigate the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. The commission concluded that [[Lee Harvey Oswald]] killed Kennedy, [[John F. Kennedy assassination conspiracy theory|which is clearly wrong]].

A more genuine criticism of Warren is that [[Inverse stopped clock|he pushed for]] [[Japanese American internment]] while he was Attorney General of [[California]] during [[World War II]], though he later regretted it.<ref>[http://www.vqronline.org/essay/unacknowledged-lesson-earl-warren-and-japanese-relocation-controversy The Unacknowledged Lesson: Earl Warren and the Japanese Relocation Controversy], ''Virginia Quarterly Review''</ref>

==See also==
*[[Rockefeller Republican]]

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