Former Chief Justice Warren E. Burger, an outspoken conservative who presided over a Supreme Court that created the right to an abortion and authorized school busing, died Sunday of heart failure.

This much is clear: One of the former Supreme Court justices most admired by nominee Harriet Miers is Warren E. Burger. But just how quickly Miers recalled his full name and whether she ever ...

Former Chief Justice Warren E. Burger, a conservative jurist who for 17 years led a fractured and at times surprisingly liberal Supreme Court, died yesterday. He was 87. Burger died of congestive ...

WASHINGTON — Former Chief Justice Warren E. Burger, a conservative jurist who for 17 years led a fractured and at times surprisingly liberal Supreme Court, died yesterday. He was 87. Chief ...

Warren E. Burger outside the Supreme Court on June 23, 1969, after taking his oath to become the 15th chief justice. (AP) (AP) Sunday marks the 50th anniversary of the swearing in of Warren E ...

Burger's deed of gift specifies that "the papers are to remain closed to researchers until 10 years after the last Justice who served with Warren E. Burger on the Supreme Court has passed away, or ...

It was Chief Justice Warren E. Burger’s court in 1973 that found such a right, in Roe v. Wade, with Justices William Rehnquist and Byron White dissenting.

When Warren E. Burger became the 15th chief justice in 1969, he used his initials—W.E.B.—to launch the "WEB Fete Society" as a way of amassing his forthcoming Supreme Court clerks as well as ...

Warren E. Burger 1986-1993. Fifteenth Chief Justice of the United States. Alvin Duke Chandler 1962-1974. Twenty-First President of William & Mary. Colgate W. Darden, Jr. 1946-1947. Governor of ...