AN EARL WARREN SHADOW SHEDS SOME LIGHT ON ALITO

The Boston Globe | November 22, 2005| | Copyright

WASHINGTON - Earl Warren, the chief justice whose bland Joe Friday appearance disguised the soul of the century's leading legal reformer, will be a ghost witness at Samuel A. Alito Jr.'s confirmation hearings.

Warren, who died in 1974, is always on the minds of conservative presidents and senators reviewing Supreme Court nominations, since he established the trend of Republican court picks shocking their sponsors by turning out to be liberal jurists.

When Dwight D. Eisenhower nominated the longtime California governor to be chief justice in 1953, he thought he was choosing a judicial ...

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