Hist 221 Timeline Supreme Court

LECTURE #18: TIMELINE: THE SUPREME COURT AND THE CONSERVATIVE REVOLUTION

1803 John Marshall, Marbury V. Madison — judicial review in theory

1810, Fletcher v. Peck,  state law declared unconstitutional

1860s and 1870s – 13. 14, 15th Amendments, then Civil Rights cases

1896 Plessy v. Ferguson, separate is not unequal

1905 Lochner v. New York” Judicial Activism

1909 NAACP FOUNDED

1915 First NAACP case before Supreme Court (against Grandfather clause)

1920s – Conservative Court

1933 Thurgood Marshall Graduates from Howard Law School, joins NAACP

1937 – FDR loses courtpacking fight – but “switch in time saves 9”

1939 FDR appoints Felix Frankfurter (b.1882) –

1950 Topeka, Kansas, Linda Brown walks to school

September 8, 1953 — Chief Justice Fred Vinson dies; Ike appoints Earl Warren

December 7, 1953 — Brown v. Topeka Board of Education (and a host of others)  December 12, 1953 — the first judicial conference, Warren seeks consensus

May 17, 1954, Brown v. Board of Education decision

1962 — Baker v. Carr one man one vote becomes one person one vote

1962 The right to counsel —  Gideon v. Wainwright

1962 Frankfurter retires

1966 the right to remain silent —  Miranda

1967 – LBJ appoints Thurgood Marshall to the Supreme Court

1969 – Nixon appoints Warren Burger as Chief Justice

1973 — Roe v. Wade (Justice Harry Blackmun)

1987 – Justice Bork Hearings