Earl Warren

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two months with the court flew by fast with no major cases, while everyone focused on the upcoming case of school desegregation.
Warren waited another six months before receiving the chance to announce his first major opinion, in the decision in the case Brown. Instead of commenting on the 14th Amendment, he spent his time agreeing with the arguments of Thurgood Marshall, that separated schools are actually unequal.
A year later, after Warren had already convinced the rest of the court that schools should be desegregated, on May 31, 1955 he announced that all schools should have local courts supervising the schools, in which some cases meant the courts taking over the school district.
In 1966 Warren and his court had another major decision to deal with, “Miranda v. State of Arizona.” The case dealt with criminal suspects and their rights. The court's decision was that criminal suspects had to be informed of their rights before questioning. Warren and his court ...

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