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Sharon McMahon

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
964 total appearances

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Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

And Earl Warren cooperated with the Department of Justice and cooperated with FDR in the removal orders to move Japanese Americans to these camps. Later, he wrote about in his autobiography how deeply he regretted those actions. And then he spent the rest of his life on the Supreme Court trying to make up for the fact that he had deprived hundreds of thousands of people of their due process. Oh.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

And Earl Warren cooperated with the Department of Justice and cooperated with FDR in the removal orders to move Japanese Americans to these camps. Later, he wrote about in his autobiography how deeply he regretted those actions. And then he spent the rest of his life on the Supreme Court trying to make up for the fact that he had deprived hundreds of thousands of people of their due process. Oh.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

Oh. And so he is the Supreme Court justice who comes into position during Brown v. Board of Education. He's the person who steers the court to making sure it's a unanimous decision. He's the person who oversees Miranda v. Arizona. We've all heard of your Miranda rights. The rights are silent. Everything you say can and will be used against you. That was a Supreme Court case under the Warren Court.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

Oh. And so he is the Supreme Court justice who comes into position during Brown v. Board of Education. He's the person who steers the court to making sure it's a unanimous decision. He's the person who oversees Miranda v. Arizona. We've all heard of your Miranda rights. The rights are silent. Everything you say can and will be used against you. That was a Supreme Court case under the Warren Court.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

Oh. And so he is the Supreme Court justice who comes into position during Brown v. Board of Education. He's the person who steers the court to making sure it's a unanimous decision. He's the person who oversees Miranda v. Arizona. We've all heard of your Miranda rights. The rights are silent. Everything you say can and will be used against you. That was a Supreme Court case under the Warren Court.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

He was also in charge of Gideon v. Wainwright, which says that people have the right to a court-appointed attorney if they cannot afford forward one. So the courtside hard pendulum swing to the left under Earl Warren in part because of his guilt over what he had done during World War II.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

He was also in charge of Gideon v. Wainwright, which says that people have the right to a court-appointed attorney if they cannot afford forward one. So the courtside hard pendulum swing to the left under Earl Warren in part because of his guilt over what he had done during World War II.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

He was also in charge of Gideon v. Wainwright, which says that people have the right to a court-appointed attorney if they cannot afford forward one. So the courtside hard pendulum swing to the left under Earl Warren in part because of his guilt over what he had done during World War II.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

Yeah.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

Yeah.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

Yeah.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

Earl Warren's father was also murdered. He was a prosecutor at the time up in the Bay Area. And he knows people that are investigating his own father's murder. His dad was literally sitting in his house one night and somebody broke into his house and hit him in the head with like a pipe and he was dead. And they get this line on like, we think we might be this guy.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

Earl Warren's father was also murdered. He was a prosecutor at the time up in the Bay Area. And he knows people that are investigating his own father's murder. His dad was literally sitting in his house one night and somebody broke into his house and hit him in the head with like a pipe and he was dead. And they get this line on like, we think we might be this guy.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

Earl Warren's father was also murdered. He was a prosecutor at the time up in the Bay Area. And he knows people that are investigating his own father's murder. His dad was literally sitting in his house one night and somebody broke into his house and hit him in the head with like a pipe and he was dead. And they get this line on like, we think we might be this guy.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

And it's a guy who's already in prison. If you wanted, we could like put a wiretap in his cell and see if he's talking about it to anybody and gain evidence against this guy that way. And Earl Warren was like, no, we're going to play things above board. We're not going to secretly wiretap anybody. That's violating people's rights.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

And it's a guy who's already in prison. If you wanted, we could like put a wiretap in his cell and see if he's talking about it to anybody and gain evidence against this guy that way. And Earl Warren was like, no, we're going to play things above board. We're not going to secretly wiretap anybody. That's violating people's rights.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

And it's a guy who's already in prison. If you wanted, we could like put a wiretap in his cell and see if he's talking about it to anybody and gain evidence against this guy that way. And Earl Warren was like, no, we're going to play things above board. We're not going to secretly wiretap anybody. That's violating people's rights.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

So he, even as a prosecutor, was somebody who wanted to play by the rules, so to speak, even if it meant not solving his own father's murder.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

So he, even as a prosecutor, was somebody who wanted to play by the rules, so to speak, even if it meant not solving his own father's murder.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

So he, even as a prosecutor, was somebody who wanted to play by the rules, so to speak, even if it meant not solving his own father's murder.