Sublime

Ultimately, Ike would appoint five justices to the court, including John Marshall Harlan and William Brennan.75 His appointees ushered in a judicial revolution in citizenship law, civil liberties, and civil rights.

Indeed, I will argue that liberty in the broad sense requires judges and officials, when applying legal principles, to assert norms of reasonableness. Otherwise, self-interested people will use law to claim almost anything.

To be principled means to consistently operate with principles that can be clearly explained.

Eisenhower’s appointment of Earl Warren to be chief justice of the United States, like John Adams’s appointment of John Marshall, was one of the major events of his presidency.

To be principled means to consistently operate with principles that can be clearly explained.

In the trial of Samuel Chase, the principle had been proven. The Senate had been created to be independent, to stand against the tyranny of presidential power and the tides of public opinion. It had stood.