Legacy Of Warren Court

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The idea of the Supreme Court as a protector of the poor and weak, and defender of social justice, is perhaps a notion tightly bound in history.

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"The idea of the Supreme Court as a protector of the poor and weak, and defender of social justice, is perhaps a notion tightly bound in history. The notion may be identified specifically with the Warren Court of the 1950s and 1960s, which handed down so many landmark decisions, most conspicuously in the areas of civil rights and criminal procedure. In the former realm, its most dramatic triumph is the abolition of legally enforced segregation, starting with Brown v. School Board in 1954. In the latter realm, its most visible symbol is the "Miranda warning," made immensely familiar, even to many who have never heard it in real life, due to its role as part of the ritual in every cop show on television: "You have the right to remain silent ..." "

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