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You're just flat-out wrong regarding Earl Warren. Do a google search for "earl warren libertarian," and all you'll get are your whacky posts on Free Republic. Do a google search for "earl warren liberal," and you'll get every other source on the internet.

LOL, you seem to think that being libertarian is not being liberal.

It's not. Only two types of people would think it is: the intellectually deficient or the bitter bomb-throwing political partisan. Which type are you?

226 posted on 07/01/2011 7:49:50 AM PDT by Hemingway's Ghost (Spirit of '75)
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To: Hemingway's Ghost

Here is a 1971 article from Time you may like, “With Black’s death, the court lost its most eminent civil libertarian and a Justice who, more than any other, had influenced its liberal course under Chief Justice Earl Warren.” http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,905407,00.html

“EARL WARREN gained his reputation as a civil libertarian”
http://www.jstor.org/pss/3639820

“While Warren’s record as a civil libertarian on the Supreme Court had”
http://www.vqronline.org/articles/1979/autumn/white-unacknowledged-lesson/

“In contrast to his civil libertarian jurisprudence on the Supreme Court” http://law.jrank.org/pages/19154/Earl-Warren.html

“The Warren Court was committed to the promotion of a libertarian and egalitarian society.” http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/right+to+privacy

Under the leadership of Chief Justice Earl Warren, the Court changed the nation’s attitudes toward civil liberties
http://www.abc-clio.com/product.aspx?id=65949

Wieman presaged a brief shift to a more libertarian position that followed Vinson’s death and the appointment of Earl Warren as chief justice in 1953 http://books.google.com/books?id=HnZtAfqHT5wC&pg=PA114&lpg=PA114&dq=earl+warren+civil+libertarian&source=bl&ots=jmxl3fuNAG&sig=XwN_YJpOV8ePuw9_tbSQDc5Fk6A&hl=en&ei=OuoNTs2IH6XSiAKX7_DYDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=36&ved=0CJYCEOgBMCM#v=onepage&q=earl%20warren%20civil%20libertarian&f=false

In the ruling upholding the search, Chief Justice Earl Warren, a revered civil libertarian, explained http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/item_nmQVK57bgn058g0If3vOcK

congressmen demanding the impeachment of Earl Warren for his decisions favoring civil libertarians over red-hunters, letters flooded in to Capitol Hill http://books.google.com/books?id=DG3BE0C0VkAC&pg=PA118&lpg=PA118&dq=earl+warren+civil+libertarian&source=bl&ots=00k58RMXXz&sig=uDAYaLa1G6csvwqzKflrRn6JdsI&hl=en&ei=OuoNTs2IH6XSiAKX7_DYDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=30&ved=0CO4BEOgBMB0#v=onepage&q&f=false

Under Earl Warren the Supreme Court became a force for civil libertarian reform. A succinct listing of its accomplishments over a period of 16 years http://books.google.com/books?id=cDSFlW9njrsC&pg=PA222&lpg=PA222&dq=earl+warren+civil+libertarian&source=bl&ots=_qMgCssE1n&sig=NKJz0JzStV6Ed68O1DEbDalkVVc&hl=en&ei=OuoNTs2IH6XSiAKX7_DYDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=12&ved=0CHEQ6AEwCw#v=onepage&q&f=false

Earl. Warren’s high rankings reflects his major role in so many decisions in which the Supreme Court expanded civil liberties in the areas http://epublications.marquette.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1534&context=mulr&sei-redir=1#search=%22earl%20warren%20civil%20libertarian%22

Continued Stearns, “Civil libertarian jurists such as Chief Justice Earl Warren, Justice Hugo Black and Justice Abe Fortas wrote that the states and federal http://www.cliffstearns.net/news2.cfm?id=130

received the Chief Justice Earl Warren Civil. Liberties Award “for his extraordinary contributions to civil liberties.” In accepting the award, http://www.aclusantacruz.org/files/newsletters/newsletterWinter2005.pdf

However, he was not a civil libertarian in the Warren mode. ... http://www.bsos.umd.edu/gvpt/lpbr/subpages/reviews/stcgug.html

“In a contest between the Constitution and treaties, the Constitution prevails. As the Supreme Court explained in Reid vs.Covert (1957), in an opinion joined by civil-libertarian icons Chief Justice Earl Warren and Associate Justices Hugo Black,William O. Douglas and William Brennan:
http://www.angelfire.com/fl/awdragon/1mlaw.html

“Warren was internationally identified with American libertarianism on racial matters” http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:Dku3T1qFDmcJ:fp.okstate.edu/vestal/SCinDiplomacy2a.doc+earl+warren+civil+libertarian&hl=en&gl=us&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESgR8ldmdECuuwn1fTPZkc9YPfyFjwLHcQMo-a8psZoLrAcQxgeDzJTk1t_S1HlkcEyqp18xMBfI20lQ48juBqvbx-Qq1GI8gjjt9g1t9BGBTOp4rE8kFChJpOSk8FbqCvnRaTKT&sig=AHIEtbSRdHO5MBkxxh9L0fYOeG0Z7B14mw

“This clearly written, heavily documented work is an examination of the United States Supreme Court’s treatment of civil liberties from 1953 to 1962, the first half of Earl Warren’s remarkable tenure as chief justice.”
http://jah.oxfordjournals.org/content/90/1/299.extract

“In mid-May, 1957, when most civil libertarians were devoting their energies on this issue by just defending the “victims” of HUAC, it was Stone who correctly sensed that the time was ripe for its abolition.
“Based on a little noticed U.S. Supreme Court decision (Watkins vs. U.S.) at that time, where Chief Justice Earl Warren pointedly asked, “Who can define the meaning of Un-American activities?”, http://www.ifstone.org/on_his_death.php


229 posted on 07/01/2011 9:19:56 AM PDT by ansel12 (America has close to India population of 1950s, India has 1,200,000,000 people now. Quality of Life?)
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