Warren Court Research Paper

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The Warren Court is big because the Warren Court it is the court that takes the Fourteenth Amendment, which states (Insert 14th Amendment here) and starts taking action by challenging rules and laws that exist in states which results in the expansion of civil liberties but more of a federal kind of action. Conservatives at the time would complain because they believe it is not the Supreme Courts job, but Congress’s job. The Supreme Court sees it in the sense of protecting liberty and the Bill of Rights by using the Fourteenth Amendment.
The Chief Justice at the time was Earl Warren who was a Republican. Prior to his nomination to the Supreme Court he was the Governor of California and a Vice President Running mate. He was appointed to the Supreme Court by Dwight D Eisenhower, who would later call Earl Warren the biggest mistake of his Presidency. Once Earl Warren got on the court he wasn’t conservative anymore, he became very liberal with the loose interpretation of the Constitution. He was known to take the words of the amendments and using the Fourteenth Amendment and he would make them mean more that they were originally written.
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Ohio, the police didn’t have a search warrant to search for a suspect in crime that was related Ms. Dollre Mapp. When the police approached Ms. Mapp’s home, she demanded a warrant and they didn’t have one, so they showed her a phony warrant, which she then confiscated. When the police failed to find the suspect they started digging and they eventually found illegal obscene pornography, leading to her arrest on obscenity charges. She would then argue that the police had no right to come into her house and it. So Supreme Court takes the Fourth Amendment and create the “Exclusionary Rule”, stating that not only do you need a search warrant but if you it don’t, anything found cannot be used as evidence in a court of law. This essential becomes an expansion of civil rights liberties and protection from government

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