It is indeed an odd business that it has taken this Court nearly two centuries to "discover" a constitutional mandate to have counsel at a preliminary hearing.

Consequently the Burger Court was described as his "in name only. Constitution. Personal life
Burger married Elvera Stromberg in 1933.

Supreme Court delivered a variety of transformative decisions on abortion capital punishment religious establishment and school desegregation during his tenure. Warren Earl Burger (September 17 1907 – June 25 1995) was the 15th Chief Justice of the United States from 1969 to 1986. Although Burger had conservative leanings and was considered an originalist the U.