Robert J. Steamer, in Political Science Quarterly (Fall 1977), 2852 Broadway, New York,
N.Y. 10025.
Lawyers, political scientists, and reporters discussing the Supreme
Court under Chief Justice Warren Burger tend to adopt "angry and
apocalyptic" tones. Many feel that Nixon and Ford appointees to the
Burger Court have systematically dismantled the "edifice of civil liber-
ties" erected the Court under Chief Justice Earl Warren (1953-69).
Despite all the "hand-wringing,"...