Warren Burger biography

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In 1969, President Richard Nixon named Warren Burger as chief justice of the Supreme Court, and in June 1969, he was sworn in. His court upheld the 1966 Miranda decision, and Burger voted with the majority in the court's landmark 1973 decision, Roe v. Wade, which established women's constitutional right to have abortions. He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1988.