Difference between revisions of "Chief Justice Burger"

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-Warren E. Burger (1907-1995) worked in the [[United States Department of Justice]] under President [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]]. Eisenhower nominated Burger for the United States Court of Appeals in 1956 for the District of Columbia Circuit.
+#REDIRECT [[Warren Burger]]
-Burger was named Chief Justice for the [[U. S. Supreme Court]] by President [[Richard Nixon]] in 1969. He sided with conservatives on most cases and helped to hold in check the liberal decisions of the Earl Warren, his predecessor. He also spoke for a unaminous Court supporting of a mandate for the Watergate tapes which brought about Nixon's resignation.
-== Sources: ==
-author unkown, http://www.oyez.org/justices/warren_e_burger/