Talk:Earl Warren

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[edit] Random

This completely random, but I was wondering about Warren's 1946 feat of winning all 3 primaries. It says 'California law at the time'...has this changed since then? Does anyone have any source on electoral law either way? I'm partially curious whether it has been changed, and I'd also just like to know more about that in general...seems strange but cool. :P Doregasm 19:08, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

In relationship to the California primaries at the time: California had a primary system that made it so you didn't have to run under any one party ticket. You could just run and all parties could vote together either for you or somebody else. In Warren's case, he ran as an Independent and won all primaries (Republican, Democratic, and Independent).

[edit] Expansion

I don't know what needs to be expanded in this article. Warren "presided over" many significant decisions but he was not really the intellectual leader of the Court at that time. I don't think a long section on Warren's jurisprudential philosophy is warranted. Read "The Warren Court and American Politics" for more on that.

[edit] Name Places

The two long lists of schools and other things named for Warren are of no interest, and simultaneously extremely random and incomplete. Imagine if the articles on Kennedy or King listed the schools names for them. The fact Warren has a few less doesn't make the information more useful or interesting. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.224.103.123 (talk) 06:17, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Other

Brown vs Board was presaged by Warren doing the same for hispanics in CA, as governor. Tempe Normal schools (AZ) in the 1940s almost did the same desgregation plug too, I may dig up data.
~ender 2003-10-27 11:18:MST

Yes, verified details on this are sorely needed in the article ~vaughn 2007-12-29 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.224.103.123 (talk) 06:22, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

Eisenhower quote on the appointment of Warren as Chief Justice. "The biggest dam-fool mistake I ever made".

[edit] Simpsons

Why does Marge debate Homer by saying "Earl Warren wasn't a stripper!" ?

Haha that line cracks me up :P The humour I think lies in it being a totally non-sequitur moment. Also it is a Simpsons running gag that Homer knows a great deal about the Chief Justices of the United States Supreme Court. Kewpid 05:24, 22 September 2005 (UTC)
I agree the line is hilarious, but I've seen every episode of The Simpsons and don't recall Homer ever mentioning a Supreme Court justice besides Earl Warren. 69.118.235.3 14:27, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
In one episode (I think, Homer Goes to College, Homer is horrified to learn that David Souter is a nerd. "Oh, no! Not Souter!", or words to that effect. --fuddlemark (fuddle me!) 14:56, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
I am fairly sure Homer has drooled to Warren Burger. So, not all Chief Justices, but at least two :) Kewpid 09:06, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
"Chief Justice of the Supreme Court! What great men he would join. John Marshall, Charles Evans Hughes, Warren Burger... mmm, burger..." 222.155.144.12 00:13, 20 October 2007 (UTC)

While 'Simpson Quote' is funny and all (it could use a reference from snpp.com) I don't really see how it is that relevant in a Article on one of the most important Supreme Court Justices. Can we remove it or put it somewhere else?

[edit] King of the Hill

From King of the Hill: PEGGY: Oh, give me a break. I don't see how having a girl on the team would ruin it. Did a woman judge ruin the Supreme Court? HANK: Yes, and that woman's name was Earl Warren.


[edit] Strangiosity

Does anyone else think it is really strange that Earl Warren was followed by Warren Burger? Not only that, but the two had almost opposite judicial and political ideologies. Is this some sort of Ying/Yang thing, e.g., Earl/Warren/Burger, or maybe just some sick twisted conspiracy designed to fuck with our minds? Goddammit, I'm not getting any sleep tonight. Does anyone know how tall EARLWARRENBURGER was.

I think about the same as Lawrence Eagleburger. Postdlf 03:10, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
Silly aside here, but this coincidence of names has actually caused confusion in real life: I was going through a retired judge's papers at the National Archives, and there was an dated document (ca. 1968-70) on "Chambers of The Chief Justice" stationery marked "received from Warren" and it was actually difficult to tell whether it was from Earl Warren or Warren Burger.
The greater tragedy of names, of course, is that Justice Burger never got to serve with Justice Frankfurter. On the other hand, Justice White served for 9 years with Justice Black, and the first Justice White served with Justice Brown and Justice Gray. Newyorkbrad 22:30, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Family

I removed the following paragraph from the bottom of the article:

However Warren is not the grandfather of actor Tim Daly and actress Tyne Daly. Tyne and Tim are not related to Justice Warren. They were born well before the 1960 marriage of Daly and Warren. Their father, James Daly, not John Charles, has no obvious connection to the Justice.

One of the peculiarities of Wikipedia is that articles are sometimes skewed out of proportion. Trivial items of interest to a contributor may take up as much space as the more serious facts. Thus, for example, we often see 50% of an article is information about some rock band or comic book that just happened to take its name from some historic person or place. Usually one can just ignore such extraneous items. However, there comes a point where an article gets overloaded. Here is a case in point. In a relatively short page for someone of Warren's importance, a paragraph has been appended with the purpose of disabusing readers of notion that they didn't have in the first place. Where does it end? Should we add another paragraph to inform readers that the subject wasn't related to Lesley Ann Warren? And why stop there? We could list billions of people he wasn't related to.

[edit] Question on Pronoun

"Warren worked a year for the Associated Oil Co. in San Francisco and then joined a private law firm in Oakland named Robinson & Robinson. The younger partner Bestor Robinson, whose father became a California Superior Court Justice, was very active in the Sierra Club and conservationism and was avid rock climber. In August 1917, he enlisted in the US Army for World War I service. Assigned to the 91st Division at Camp Lewis, Washington. 1st Lieutenant Earl Warren was discharged in 1918. " Who is this he? Bestor Robinson, who was just talked about, or Warren? My guess is Warren but i'm not sure.... Please clearfy by replacing said pronoun with the name of correct person.

[edit] Please Add Your Sources

In the peer review of this article one of the most obvious points editors make is that there is a wealth of information in this article that lacks citations. At the bottom of the page there is a list of references which seems to indicate that this is where the bulk of the information came from. I am relatively new to this article, but I would like to improve it in order to nominate it for GA status. I am going to try and find sources for the material in this article, and will start with the books listed under references, but it would be helpful if anyone who has been editing this article based off one of the books in the references could go back and make inline citations. If you need help check out Wikipedia:Citation_templates for the proper formating. Wikipediatoperfection (talk) 10:36, 21 December 2007 (UTC)