Geburtsdatum | Freitag, 08. Juni 1917 |
Geburtsort | Fort Collins, Colorado, U.S. |
Todesort | Denver,_Colorado |
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Beschreibung | Byron "Whizzer" Raymond White (June 8, 1917 – April 15, 2002) was an American professional football player and jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1962 to 1993. Born and raised in Colorado, White played college football, basketball, and baseball for the University of Colorado, finishing as the runner up for the Heisman Trophy in 1937 and was a consensus All-American. He was the fourth overall selection of the 1938 NFL Draft, taken by the Pittsburgh Pirates (later Steelers), and led the National Football League in rushing yards in his rookie season. White spent a year at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar, then was admitted to Yale Law School in 1939 and played for the Detroit Lions in the 1940 and 1941 seasons while still attending law school. During |
The Court is most vulnerable and comes nearest to illegitimacy when it deals with judge-made constitutional law having little or no cognizable roots in the language or design of the Constitution.
The 1st Amendment protects the right to speak, not the right to spend.
