Warren Court
Activist Supreme Court
The Warren Court is the U.S.
Supreme Court during Earl Warren's tenure as Chief Justice (1953–1969), remembered for landmark decisions expanding civil rights and civil liberties.
Brown v. Board of Education, which declared school segregation unconstitutional, and Miranda v. Arizona, requiring police to inform suspects of their rights, exemplify its activist approach.
The term often appears in debates about judicial philosophy: Critics accused the Warren Court of legislating from the bench.
- Brown v. BoardDesegregation Supreme Court decision
- separate but equalRacial segregation's constitutional fiction
- desegregationEnding enforced group separation
- civil rightsGuaranteed individual legal protections
- judicial activismBroad court interpretation philosophy
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Warren Courtoriginalism
Interpreting by founding-era meaning
judicial restraint · textualism · Clarence Thomas · narrow interpretation
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