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Junior Chimp
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« on: April 16, 2019, 06:43:17 PM » |
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The Burger Court is interesting in that Nixon, who constantly attacked the Warren Court, named just under half the members of the Court, but the Burger Court largely upheld Warren Court precedents and even had a few "liberal" decisions of its own.
What happened was that while Burger and especially Rehnquist were quite conservative, but Powell became a bit of a centrist and Blackmun slowly morphed into the most liberal judge on the court. Brennan remained arguably the intellectual leader of the court, and he was generally joined by Marshall, Blackmun, Douglas/Stevens and enough of the remaining judges that the liberal bloc generally won the major cases.
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