Decisions of the Warren Court were?

Answer 1

Started the modern era of Civil Rights when newly appointed Chief Justice Warren, a somewhat Liberal Republican from California (Liberals and moderates were common in the Republican party, and even often the dominant wing, until 1994, though the shift rightward was very gradual, from Richard Nixon's Liberal platform in 1960 to Goldwater's almost overtly racist "states rights" campaign in 1964, identified as 'Conservative' and often considered to have founded that modern movement, but which suffered a catastrophic loss to the Democratic party in that year with the passage of the most important Civil Rights (and highly enforceable) civil rights legislation and and an immmense electoral loss that left Liberal Democrats in firm control of both chambers of Congress and the presidency for the first (and nearly the only) time since 1937--a period they used to expand Social Security benefits modestly, and, more importantly, enact the Voting Rights Act that finally put teeth in the constitutionally sanctioned federal enforcement powers supporting voting rights contained in the 15th amendment to the US Constitution--significantly, an act renewed by large bipartisan majorities in nearly every decade since 1965, but even more recently gutted by the Roberts Court, probably illegally).

Digression aside, Warren turned out to be a Social Liberal as a judge, surprising some obervers who'd expected to see a different side of him. He and his court helped force the civil rights movement onto the national stage and into crisis (supporting it) with their unanimousruling in 'Brown' in 1954, and later used latent language in the constitution to expand other civil rights for individuals in the 1960s. However, given the sometimes tenuous nature of the legal arguments employed (most notably in Roe vs Wade, which eliminated most of states' rights to prevent abortions until the 21st century when the right wing court formed in reaction to the Warren court gradually, subtly began attacking its substance without completely overturning it. The Warren Court left a legacy of Center-left civil rights decisions, as well as a determination, since executed, by the US Conservative movement to use the nation's high court as a tool of power rather than a neutral arbiter of laws, a movement on the right which began to achieve success in the 1980s, especially as the centrist Burgher court gave way to the more right wing Renqhuist court and then the even more right wing Roberts court under in the early 21st century; the latter would be more aggressive in stripping away rights to abortion guaranteed under Roe vs. Wade and, even more importantly, gutting the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (illegally according to any plain or reasonable reading of the US Constitution) and increasing the power of corporations and the individual rich, never small, to influence US elections on a massive scale. As of 2013, this reaction against the Warren Court continues to dominate the US judicial system.

Other decisions in the 1960s which alienated the US populace from the Warren court and Liberalism in general were those restricting conventional policing privileges, during a period of a growing crime wave.