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'''Warren Earl Burger''' was born in St. Paul [[Minnesota]] on September 17, 1907. In a family of seven children, Burger earned his way through [[college]] and law school{{fact}}. He practiced law for more than twenty years, but during this period he was active in the Minnesota state [[Republican Party]]. Burger worked for the [[Justice Department]] under [[Dwight Eisenhower|President Eisenhower]], who nominated Burger in 1956 to the [[United States Court of Appeals]] for the [[District of Columbia]] Circuit.

'''Warren Earl Burger''' was born in St. Paul [[Minnesota]] on September 17, 1907. In a family of seven children, Burger earned his way through [[college]] and law school{{fact}}. He practiced law for more than twenty years, but during this period he was active in the Minnesota state [[Republican Party]]. Burger worked for the [[Justice Department]] under [[Dwight Eisenhower|President Eisenhower]], who nominated Burger in 1956 to the [[United States Court of Appeals]] for the [[District of Columbia]] Circuit.

Burger was appointed by President [[Richard Nixon]] in 1969 to replace [[Earl Warren]] as Chief Justice to the [[United States Supreme Court]]. He was a strong advocate of "strict constructionism", a philosophy whereby one attempts to base one's decisions upon the literal text of the [[Constitution]]. Burger identified with the Court's [[conservative]] wing and frequently voted to limit the [[liberal]] decisions of the Warren period. Burger was not one-dimensional, however. He authored the Court's opinion upholding the right of trial judges to order busing as a remedy for school [[segregation]] and he spoke for a unanimous Court upholding a [[subpeona]] for the [[Watergate]] tapes which resulted in President Nixon's resignation.

Burger was appointed by President [[Richard Nixon]] in 1969 to replace [[Earl Warren]] as Chief Justice of the [[United States]]. He was a strong advocate of "strict constructionism", a philosophy whereby one attempts to base one's decisions upon the literal text of the [[Constitution]]. Burger identified with the Court's [[conservative]] wing and frequently voted to limit the [[liberal]] decisions of the Warren period. Burger was not one-dimensional, however. He authored the Court's opinion upholding the right of trial judges to order busing as a remedy for school [[segregation]] and he spoke for a unanimous Court upholding a [[subpoena]] for the [[Watergate]] tapes which resulted in President Nixon's resignation.

 

 

In ''[[Roe v. Wade]]'', Chief Justice Burger voted with the majority of the court in favor of [[abortion]] but supposedly only did so to enable him to assign the writing of the opinion to Justice Blackmun rather than to Justice [[William Brennan]], who was expected to write a more [[liberal]] decision.<ref>The Chief Justice has the power to assign who writes the opinion for the side that he is on; the writer of the opinion on the other side is determined by the most senior judge on that side.</ref>  As it turned out, Justice Brennan had tremendous influence over the writing of the decision anyway.

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