Volume 30, Number 14 · September 29, 1983
You Can't Go Home Again
By Anthony Lewis
When Warren E. Burger succeeded Earl Warren as chief justice of the United States in 1969, many expected to see the more striking constitutional doctrines of the Warren years pulled back or even abandoned. The reapportionment cases, Brown v. Board of Education and other decisions against racial discrimination, the criminal-law decisions imposing what amounted to a code of fair procedure on the states, the cases enlarging the freedom of speech and the press: in these, it was often said, the Warren Court had launched a constitutional revolution. Now a counterrevolution was seemingly at hand.
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