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Justice Stewart is best known for defining [[pornography]] as "I know it when I see it," but then he held in favor of the pornographers in that case. He also ruled against the [[death penalty]] and sought to rule against the [[constitutionality]] of the [[Vietnam War]]. | Justice Stewart is best known for defining [[pornography]] as "I know it when I see it," but then he held in favor of the pornographers in that case. He also ruled against the [[death penalty]] and sought to rule against the [[constitutionality]] of the [[Vietnam War]]. | ||
Revision as of 03:03, April 4, 2009
Potter Stewart (1915–1985) was appointed at a relatively young age to become an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court by President Dwight Eisenhower in 1958, and later retired from the Court at a relatively young age in 1981.
Justice Stewart was conservative on some issues, disagreeing with the Warren Court in these landmark cases:
- Abington School District v. Schempp (1963) (reinterpreting the Establishment Clause to be hostile to religion)
- Miranda v. Arizona (1966) (inventing a new privilege against self-incrimination using the Fifth Amendment)
- Reynolds v. Sims (1964) (inventing a new voting right using the Fourteenth Amendment)
- Griswold v. Connecticut (1965) (inventing a right of privacy using a penumbra of the Bill of Rights)
Justice Stewart is best known for defining pornography as "I know it when I see it," but then he held in favor of the pornographers in that case. He also ruled against the death penalty and sought to rule against the constitutionality of the Vietnam War.
