| In 1953 President Eisenhower appointed Earl Warren, the Republican governor of California, as Chief Justice of the United States. The conservative Eisenhower soon discovered that rather than appointing a fellow conservative to the Court, he had chosen one of the great liberal jurists in American history. The Warren Court greatly expanded individual rights and government power to regulate the economy. For example, in Brown v. Board of Education (1954), Warren wrote the decision for a unanimous Court decision outlawing segregation in public schools because segregation denied black students equal protection of the law under the 14th Amendment. |
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