official chief justices poll

duh. earl warren by 100 miles.

roberts is terrible too btw, fuk u if u vote for him also

no i want to change my vote to melville fuller look at him
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9d/Melville_Weston_Fuller_Chief_Justice_1908.jpg/381px-Melville_Weston_Fuller_Chief_Justice_1908.jpg

the names up until you get to burger are so ur-WASP. i wish my name was morrison waite

Marge: Do you want your son to become Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, or a sleazy male stripper?
Homer: Can't he be both, like the late Earl Warren?
Marge: Earl Warren wasn't a stripper!
Homer: Now who's being naïve?

where's the vote for the one who's not a white male? oh wait

^h8s white males

yeah if only clarence thomas was chief justice we'd finally see some change in this country

lol scalia robbed

earl warren
warren burger

this was really confusing to me when I was younger

i was thinking about that one day, why couldn't the next justice be someone with the first name "burger"

Burger King

^ please refrain from making a shitty billy joel parody

http://www.socialoutcast.net/images/simon_plint_die_burger1.jpg

only the history buffs know anything pre-Earl Warren

Taney was CJ for Dred Scott decision, yes? well, screw him.

ummm and lawyers?

oh yeah (I don't think about them)

I think John Jay and W.H. Taft are pretty well-known, even if people don't know much about their tenure on the court.

Also, Salmon P. Chase was once on money! Although that's kind of a trivia question:

http://elementaryteacher.files.wordpress.com/2007/08/ten-thousand-dollar-bill-salmon-p-chase.jpg

CJSCOTUS OTM

Marshall!

I'm trying and failing to google up a full list of people who have appeared on American money.

HAHAHA actually my last search failed due to the name "Palin" accidentally getting left in long search-box term

That coin would be made of pressed venison jerky and would claim to be worth 50 cents despite actually being worth $250,000

http://www.oyez.org/justices/john_jay/portrait/john_jay_portait.jpg

i am descended from this dude

Would also read "IN GOSH WE TRUST"

i will be voting with my uninformed heart on this one for Salmon P Chase because i can imagine him as a giant talking fish in a robe

Charles Evans Hughes: the most varied resume (Progressive Republican NY governor, associate justice, very nearly prez of the United States, secretary of state), one of the best writers, and led the Court into the modern age at the height of the New Deal.

I thought I started this poll...

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warren burger

this was really confusing to me when I was younger

i always confused him with hamilton burger, who got his ass kicked weekly by perry mason

I always felt bad for bug-eyed Hamilton Burger.

Perhaps you meant to say Perry Mason made mincemeat out of Ham Burger.

no one for marshall?

the only marshall for me is thurgood

both were monumental for their time.

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