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The lives they lived and the court they shaped: Remembering those we lost in 2020

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When Warren Burger became chief justice in 1969, he found that he was spending up to six hours a day on administrative matters in addition to his judicial work. So Congress, for the first time, passed a law authorizing the chief justice to hire an administrative assistant. In June, the court ruled in R.G. &

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