Sharon McMahon
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first heard Nov 2024
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He was also the only governor of California to ever have won both the Democratic and the Republican primary elections to be the governor. He won them both. Oh, my God. So Earl Warren, very popular figure in California history at the time. He's a former prosecutor.
Yes. Same guy. Earl Warren was not a judge when he got appointed to the Supreme Court. He was the governor of California. Yeah. Yeah.
You actually don't have to be a lawyer. I could be on the Supreme Court. You could be on the Supreme Court.
All three of us can be on the Supreme Court. There are literally no constitutional requirements to be on the court.
No.
The constitutional requirement is you have to be able to get approved by the Senate. That's it. And so if the Senate says you're good, then you're golden.
It's too late for you.
Anyway, Earl Warren gets on the Supreme Court. He gets appointed by Dwight Eisenhower. Dwight Eisenhower kind of later regretted appointing Earl Warren because Earl Warren went about changing some stuff. He had been in charge of the state of California during the time period that the United States was actively incarcerating Japanese Americans during World War II.
where we rounded up more than 100,000 people of Japanese ancestry and moved them into incarceration camps away from the Pacific coast because of the attack on Pearl Harbor. And those people were, by and large, U.S. citizens who had been accused of absolutely no crime. Many of them were children. They received no due process whatsoever.
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.
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.
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.
Yeah.
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.
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.
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.
His father's murder is still technically unsolved all of these years later, although people now feel like it's very likely this one guy. There's a good amount of evidence.
Yes. And it was the guy who was in prison who he could have wiretapped and didn't. He's the most likely suspect in having killed Earl Warren's dad.
I think you're right that first of all, it is better to have a guilty man free than an innocent man imprisoned. You might think to yourself, yeah, I agree with that. But I think in times like today, that's a big ask for some people. People would rather be safe. Yeah. And if that means putting in some innocent people in prison, then that's the choice they're going to make. Do you agree?
Do you see what I'm saying there?
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